Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Fatima, Razia"
Now showing items 1-8 of 8
-
Are patients with pulmonary tuberculosis identified by active and by passive case detection different? A cross-sectional study in Pakistan
Ul Haq, Mahboob; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Fatima, Razia; Qadeer, Ejaz; Habib, Hammad; Hussain, Kashif; Khan, Abdul Wali (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objectives Our objective was to compare the characteristics of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) identified through “extended contact screening” (ECS) with those of patients identified through routine passive case ... -
Building better tuberculosis control systems in a post-COVID world: learning from Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic
Fatima, Razia; Akhtar, Nasim; Yaqoob, Aashifa; Harries, Anthony D.; Khan, Mishal S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives All countries impacted by COVID-19 have had to change routine health service delivery. Although this has reversed some of the progress made in reducing the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) disease, there is ... -
Building sustainable operational research capacity in Pakistan: starting with tuberculosis and expanding to other public health problems
Fatima, Razia; Yaqoob, Aashifa; Qadeer, Ejaz; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Heldal, Einar; Zachariah, Rony; Harries, Anthony D.; Kumar, Ajay M.V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: For many years, operational research capacity has been a challenge and has remained a low priority for the health sector in Pakistan. Building research capacity for developing a critical mass of researchers in ... -
Diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis in Pakistan: Are national guidelines used by private healthcare providers?
Yaqoob, Aashifa; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Fatima, Razia; Shewade, Hemant Deepak; Nisar, Nadia; Wali, Ahmed (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background The National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) in Pakistan developed, with the Pakistan Paediatric Association, a pediatric scoring chart to aid diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis (TB). Our study compared the ... -
Extending contact screening within a 50-m radius of an index tuberculosis patient using Xpert MTB/RIF in urban Pakistan: Did it impact treatment outcomes?
Ul Haq, Mahboob; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Fatima, Razia; Shewade, Hemant Deepak; Heldal, Einar; Latif, Abdullah; Kumar, Ajay M.V. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Pakistan implemented initiatives to detect tuberculosis (TB) patients through extended contact screening (ECS); it improved case detection but treatment outcomes need assessment. Objectives To compare ... -
Geographic accessibility to childhood tuberculosis care in Pakistan
Yaqoob, Aashifa; Alvi, Muhammad Rizwan; Fatima, Razia; Najmi, Hina; Samad, Zia; Nisar, Nadia; Haq, Anwar Ul; Javed, Basharat; Khan, Abdul Wali; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Tuberculosis (TB) in children is difficult to detect and often needs specialists to diagnose; the health system is supposed to refer to higher level of health care when diagnosis is not settled in a sick child. ... -
How do private practitioners in Pakistan manage children suspected having tuberculosis? A cross sectional study
Yaqoob, Aashifa; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Fatima, Razia; Najmi, Hina; ul-Haq, Anwar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background In Pakistan, private providers provide a large portion of health care, including for tuberculosis (TB). All TB patients are supposed to be reported to the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP), which provides ... -
Measuring and addressing the childhood tuberculosis reporting gaps in Pakistan: The first ever national inventory study among children
Fatima, Razia; Yaqoob, Aashifa; Qadeer, Ejaz; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Ikram, Aamer; Sismanidis, Charalambos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-30)Introduction Tuberculosis in children may be difficult to diagnose and is often not reported to routine surveillance systems. Understanding and addressing the tuberculosis (TB) case detection and reporting gaps strengthens ...