Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19.
J Epidemiol Community Health
; 76(3): 310-316, 2022 03.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1430205
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruptions to tuberculosis (TB) care and service delivery in 2020, setting back progress in the fight against TB by several years. As newer COVID-19 variants continue to devastate many low and middle-income countries in 2021, the extent of this setback is likely to increase. Despite these challenges, the TB community can draw on the comprehensive approaches used to manage COVID-19 to help restore progress and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on TB. Our team developed the 'Swiss Cheese Model for Ending TB' to illustrate that it is only through multisectoral collaborations that address the personal, societal and health system layers of care that we will end TB. In this paper, we examine how COVID-19 has impacted the different layers of TB care presented in the model and explore how we can leverage some of the lessons and outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen the global TB response.
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Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Tuberculosis
/
COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
Topics:
Variants
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Epidemiol Community Health
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Jech-2021-217529
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