Tuberculosis contact investigation in African Portuguese-speaking countries at End TB Strategy era: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The contact investigation of tuberculosis (TB) index case is one of the critical elements pointed by the WHO to reach the end of the TB epidemic. The scoping review aimed to map out the recommended and the adopted processes applied to active contact investigation of TB index case in African Portuguese-speaking countries (PALOP).

Design

Scoping review.

Data sources

We searched B-on, Cochrane Library, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, WHOLIS, IRIS, OKR, each country's Ministry of Health websites, WHO, Global Fund, World Bank and bibliographic reference lists from February to May 2020.

Eligibility criteria

All available literature on TB contact investigation in each country part of PALOP (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Prin

SUBMITTER: Loesch RBR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8981322 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature