Community views on active case finding for tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis

CONCLUSIONS: Tuberculosis active case finding (ACF) and contact tracing bring a diagnostic service to people who may otherwise not receive it, such as those who are well or without symptoms and those who are sick but who have fewer resources and live further from health facilities. However, capturing these 'missing cases' may in itself be insufficient without appropriate health system strengthening to retain people in care. People who receive a tuberculosis diagnosis must contend with a complex and unsustainable cascade of care, and this affects their perception of ACF and their decision to engage with it.PMID:38511668 | PMC:PMC10955804 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD014756.pub2
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Category: General Medicine Authors: Source Type: research