Community health volunteers’ contribution to tuberculosis patients notified to National Tuberculosis program through contact investigation in Kenya

Abstract Background Contact investigation is important in finding contacts of people who have Tuberculosis (TB) disease so that they can be given treatment and stop further transmission. The main objective of this study was to assess the contribution of community health volunteers (CHVs) to the numb...

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Main Authors: Tabitha Abongo, Benson Ulo, Sarah Karanja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-09271-7