Understanding Market Size and Reporting Gaps for Paediatric TB in Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan: Supporting Improved Treatment of Childhood TB in the Advent of New Medicines

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 10; p. e0138323
• Main Authors: Coghlan, Renia, Gardiner, Elizabeth, Amanullah, Farhana, Ihekweazu, Chikwe, Triasih, Rina, Grzemska, Malgorzata, Sismanidis, Charalambos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 13.10.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Antitubercular Agents - economics; Antitubercular Agents - therapeutic use; Care and treatment; Child; Childhood; Children; Communication; Complications and side effects; Development and progression; Diagnostic systems; Disease Notification - statistics & numerical data; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Evaluation; Health care; Health care facilities; Health Care Sector - statistics & numerical data; Health promotion; Health surveillance; Hospitals; Humans; Indonesia; Indonesia - epidemiology; Markets; Medical care; Medical diagnosis; Medicine; Nigeria - epidemiology; Pakistan; Pakistan - epidemiology; Patient outcomes; Private sector; Public health; Public sector; Studies; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - drug therapy; Tuberculosis - economics; Tuberculosis - epidemiology; Nigeria; Pakistan; Indonesia; New York; United States > US; Switzerland

We sought to understand gaps in reporting childhood TB cases among public and private sector health facilities (dubbed "non-NTP" facilities) outside the network of national TB control programmes, and the resulting impact of under-reporting on estimates of paediatric disease burden and mark...