• 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 ...
    • 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. ...