International non-governmental organizations' provision of community-based tuberculosis care for hard-to-reach populations in Myanmar, 2013-2014.
4 INGO strategies for providing community-based TB care and their contribution to TB case detection
Abstract
National tuberculosis (TB) programs increasingly engage with international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), especially to provide TB care in complex settings where community involvement might be required. In Myanmar, however, there is limited data on how such INGO community-based programs are organized and how effective they are. In this study, the authors describe 4 INGO strategies for providing community-based TB care to hard-to-reach populations in Myanmar, and assess their contribution to TB case detection.
This research was supported by the UK Department for International Development’s Operational Research Capacity Building Programme led by the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union)
Citation
Soe KT, Saw S, van Griensven J, Zhou S, Win L, Chinnakali P, Shah S, Mon MM, Aung ST. International non-governmental organizations’ provision of community-based tuberculosis care for hard-to-reach populations in Myanmar, 2013-2014. Infectious diseases of poverty. 2017; 6(1):69.