Active household contact screening for tuberculosis and provision of isoniazid preventive therapy to under-five children in Afghanistan.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This observational study analyzed the performance of the National TB Control Program (NTP) in Afghanistan in household contact screening from 2011 to 2018 and its use as an entry point for isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT), as well as the IPT completion rates for children under age five.

Methods

From 2011 to 2018, the Afghanistan NTP released guidelines for passive and active contact screening of bacteriologically confirmed TB cases. Health workers were trained in contact screening. Presumptive TB cases gave sputum for AFB smear microscopy; other diagnostics were used if patients could not produce sputum. Children under five (excluding those with active TB) were treated for latent TB infection. We calculated the yield and the number needed to screen and number ne

SUBMITTER: Sayedi SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7546473 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature