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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a respiratory infectious disease caused by pathogen mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it is estimated to lead over 10 million people to fall ill with TB every year. TB disproportionately affects people who are socioeconomically disadvantaged and have limited access to healthcare due to gaps in health system service coverage and persistent transmission in communities.

The epidemiology team blends expertise in TB epidemiology, health systems, and spatial analysis to identify strategies for TB programs and implementers to identify and treat more people with TB in facility and community settings.

Our Projects

  • Electronic Case based Surveillance: Using predictive modelling and real-time data to plan Active TB Case Finding in Pakistan

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    Pakistan has one of the highest burdens of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, a disease that infected as many as 10 million people and caused 1.4 million deaths globally in 2019. Around a quarter of the world’s population are thought to be infected with latent TB. The disease can remain dormant for years, until, for example, the immune system is […]

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  • Tuberculosis Hackathon

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    The Tuberculosis Hackathon begins with a question: can we make useful predictive models for sub-national tuberculosis (TB) burden in Pakistan? In partnership with Pakistan’s National Tuberculosis Control Program, KIT’s Centre for Spatial Epidemiology (CASE) is hosting a virtual hackathon to develop novel approaches to predict TB burden. The challenge TB prevalence surveys are usually powered […]

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  • Bangkok Workshop on the MATCH Approach to Tuberculosis Care in South & South-East Asia

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    The Centre for Applied Spatial Epidemiology (CASE) of KIT Royal Tropical Institute provided training in the MATCH Approach to tuberculosis (TB) programme staff who use data to improve programme effectiveness. Funded by the Global Fund, The Stop TB Partnership and the WHO Global TB Program, the CASE team traveled to Bangkok to facilitate the “Regional […]

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  • The KIT MATCH Approach for Enhancing TB Care Coverage

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    KIT Institute proudly presents: the MATCH approach (Mapping and Analysis for Tailored disease Control and Health system strengthening) for National Tuberculosis Programmes. MATCH supports National Tuberculosis Programmes to more effectively use resources to treat populations with ongoing tuberculosis transmission. The MATCH approach begins by gathering many – often underused – sources of data, for example: geographic, temporal, and demographic data. The first step […]

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  • TB REACH: Piloting and Monitoring Innovative Interventions for TB Control

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    In collaboration with health consultants, KIT Royal Tropical Institute developed an analysis method and monitoring and evaluation tools for measuring the effectiveness of tuberculosis detection innovations. Improving case detection in poor and vulnerable populations Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Globally more than three million people with TB remain undiagnosed each […]

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  • Assessment of Tuberculosis under- or over-Reporting through Inventory Studies

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    We are assessing the completeness of tuberculosis notification data by retrospective analysis of multiple national tuberculosis databases in six selected EU/EEA Member States. This project will provide information on surveillance completeness and quality, an estimate of the incidence of tuberculosis and information on strengths and gaps in the national surveillance system in  six European countries. […]

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Our Publications

Blogs

  • Finding Tuberculosis Hotspots in Pakistan

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    With funding from the KIT Knowledge Investment Fund (KIF), our epidemiologists have developed a novel approach to identifying Pakistan communities with a high likelihood of having people with undiagnosed tuberculosis (TB). TB’s lengthy and unpredictable incubation period makes detection difficult using conventional measures and is one of the reasons why the disease has been so […]

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  • Yes, we can #END TB! But we need to significantly scale up its preventive treatment

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    Currently, one in four people worldwide is estimated to have the Tuberculosis (TB) infection and are as such at risk for developing the disease. Unfortunately, progress towards the UN’s 2018 global target for the number of people provided with preventive treatment by 2021 has been slow – only 42 percent of the people targeted have […]

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