A5090283400- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Health and Well-being Studies
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2022-2025
University of Lomé
2025
Togolese Ministry of Health
2020
Over the past 15 years, and despite many difficulties, significant progress has been made to advance child adolescent tuberculosis (TB) care. Despite increasing availability of safe effective treatment prevention options, TB remains a global health priority as major cause morbidity mortality-over one half million children adolescents develop each year. A history public perspective on is followed by 12 narratives detailing challenges in 19 endemic low middle-income countries. Overarching...
Introduction Undernourished persons with tuberculosis (TB) (PWTB) are at increased risk of mortality, treatment failure and relapse. Nutritional support for PWTB has the potential to mitigate undernutrition. However, given ethical concerns, well-powered randomised control trials macronutrient unavailable inform policymakers, clinicians researchers about impact nutritional support. there is understand through a natural experiment. Benin Togo neighbouring countries in West Africa. Benin’s...
Quality has been mentioned as the missing ingredient in TB care and control. In Togo, is a priority public health problem. We hypothesize that "quality mindset" for excellence control Togo. used statistical process (SPC) tools to analyze cohort data from National Tuberculosis Control Program. There was an unstable quarterly variation smear-positive pulmonary (TBP+) treatment success rate 2017 2022. The general trend since first instability around of 86%. Results showed stability TBP+ case...
The objective was to implement CI under national tuberculosis programmatic conditions and advocate for its scaling up. Contact investigation implemented in 150 Basic Management Units identified across eight countries. target populations (children <5 years persons living with HIV (PLHIV)) were evaluated during home clinic visits using standardized tools, clinical examinations and, according each country, additional tests. Contacts active TB received treatment those eligible preventive...
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) poses a significant public health challenge, particularly in resource-limited settings. The prevalence and management of DR-TB African countries require comprehensive strategies to improve patient outcomes control the spread disease. Aggregated routine data (from 2018 2022) on multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) were collected from National Programs (NTPs) all six countries. diagnostic capacity for MDR-TB was globally insufficient. system collecting...