Home-Based and Facility-Based Directly Observed Therapy of Tuberculosis Treatment under Programmatic Conditions in Urban Tanzania.

Home-Based and Facility-Based Directly Observed Therapy of Tuberculosis Treatment under Programmatic Conditions in Urban Tanzania.

Decentralization of Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) for tuberculosis (TB) to the community (home-based DOT) has improved the coverage of TB treatment and reduced the burden to the health care facilities (facility-based DOT). We aimed to compare TB treatment outcomes in home-based and facility-base...

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Main Authors: Francis Mhimbira, Jerry Hella, Thomas Maroa, Shadrack Kisandu, Magreth Chiryamkubi, Khadija Said, Grace Mhalu, Abdallah Mkopi, Beatrice Mutayoba, Klaus Reither, Sébastien Gagneux, Lukas Fenner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4981322?pdf=render

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