Executive summary Tuberculosis can be treated, prevented, and cured. Rapid, sustained
declines in tuberculosis deaths in many countries during the past 50 years provide …

Background India has 23% of the global burden of active tuberculosis (TB) patients and 27%
of the world's “missing” patients, which includes those who may not have received effective …

How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to
put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new …

Background Existing studies of the quality of tuberculosis care have relied on recall-based
patient surveys, questionnaire surveys of knowledge, and prescription or medical record …

Despite the high coverage of directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS), tuberculosis
(TB) continues to affect 10.4 million people each year, and kills 1.8 million. High TB mortality …

Background India has the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB). Although most patients with
TB in India seek care from the private sector, there is limited evidence on quality of TB care …

The care cascade—which evaluates outcomes across stages of patient engagement in a
health system—is an important framework for assessing quality of tuberculosis (TB) care. In …

Cough assessment is central to the clinical management of respiratory diseases, including
tuberculosis (TB), but strategies to objectively and unobtrusively measure cough are lacking …

Background Timely diagnosis and treatment initiation are critical to reduce the chain of
transmission of Tuberculosis (TB) in places like Mumbai, where almost 60% of the …

Objective: To identify the determinants of tuberculosis-related variables in the various
regions of Brazil and evaluate trends in those variables over the ten-year period preceding …