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Innovative Community-Based Approaches Doubled Tuberculosis Case Notification and Improve Treatment Outcome in Southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: TB Control Programmes rely on passive case-finding to detect cases. TB notification remains low in Ethiopia despite major expansion of health services. Poor rural communities face many barriers to service access. METHODS AND FINDINGS: A community-based intervention package was implemente...
Autores principales: | Yassin, Mohammed A., Datiko, Daniel G., Tulloch, Olivia, Markos, Paulos, Aschalew, Melkamsew, Shargie, Estifanos B., Dangisso, Mesay H., Komatsu, Ryuichi, Sahu, Suvanand, Blok, Lucie, Cuevas, Luis E., Theobald, Sally |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23723975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063174 |
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