Childhood tuberculosis treatment outcome and its association with HIV co-infection in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide, next to HIV. Hence, initiating and determining the national tuberculosis treatment program and outcome is crucial. However, the childhood tuberculosis treatment outcome in Ethiopia was not investigated.

Objective

This study determined the pooled estimate of childhood tuberculosis treatment outcome and its association with HIV co-infection.

Methods

PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, reference lists of included studies, and Ethiopian institutional research repositories were used to retrieve all available studies. Searching was limited to the studies that had been conducted in Ethiopia and published in the English language. In this study, observational studies, includi

SUBMITTER: Belay GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027074 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature