Using community health workers for facility and community based TB case finding: An evaluation in central Mozambique.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mozambique has one of the highest incidence rates of both TB and HIV in the world and an estimated tuberculosis (TB) treatment coverage of only 57% in 2018. Numerous approaches are being tested to reduce existing gaps in coverage and the estimated number of missing cases.

Methods

Thirty Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) were tasked with increasing TB notifications by performing verbal facility-based TB screening of all people presenting for care and TB contact tracing in the community. Using routine National TB Program data, we analyzed trends in TB notifications in five intervention districts and seven control districts in Manica province the year before this project and during a one-year intervention period.

Results

In the four quarters before the study

SUBMITTER: Jose B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7377411 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature