• 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 ...
    • 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. ...