Global impact of COVID-19 on childhood tuberculosis: an analysis of notification data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is concern that the COVID-19 pandemic has damaged global childhood tuberculosis management. Quantifying changes in childhood tuberculosis notifications could support more targeted interventions to restore childhood tuberculosis services. We aimed to use time-series modelling to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on child tuberculosis notifications.

Methods

Annual tuberculosis case notification data reported to WHO by 215 countries were used to calculate annual notification counts for the years 2014-20, stratified by age groups (0-4, 5-14, and ≥15 years) and sex. We used time-series modelling to predict notification counts for 2020, and calculated differences between these predictions and observed notifications in 2020 for each of the six WHO regions and at the

SUBMITTER: Ranasinghe L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9671550 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature