Tuberculosis treatment outcome: The case of women in Ethiopia and China, ten-years retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Every year tuberculosis kills above half million women all over the world. Nonetheless, the factor affecting TB treatment outcome of women was less frequently studied and compared among countries. Hence, this study was aimed to measure and compare outcome of treatment and the death size of these two countries.

Method

Socio demographic and clinical data of women treated for all form of tuberculosis in the past ten years 2007-2016 were collected from total of eight hospitals and six treatment centers of Tigray and Zigong respectively. Then, we measured the magnitude of TB, level of treatment success and identify factors associated with the unsuccessful TB outcome.

Result

In the past ten years, a total of 5603(41.5%) and 4527 (24.5%) tuberculosis cases were ob

SUBMITTER: Ma X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6860933 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature