5114.0 Tuberculosis (including joint TB/HIV programs)

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
This session investigates the impact of sharing diagnostic capabilities for TB with communities as well as reviewing prevalence and outcomes in selected areas.
Session Objectives: * Identify benefits of and challenges to increasing access to diagnostics through working within communities. * Describe the prevalence and correlates of latent tuberculosis infection in a rural, migrant farmworker community in Mexico. * Compare treatment outcomes among those who enrolled in TB P4P and non-P4P group.
Moderator:
Ramona Finnie, DrPH, MPH, CHES
Discussant:
Alpha Bah, PhD, MPH, MS

10:30am
Building toward Universal Access for TB diagnosis in Malawi
Elizabeth Kapyepye, CNT, ACD, Rodrick Nalikungwi and Kayt Erdahl, MPH, CPH
     
10:48am
Latent Tuberculosis Infection in a Migrant Agricultural Community in Baja California, Mexico
Richard S. Garfein, PhD, MPH, Jose Luis Burgos, MD, MPH, Alfonso rodriquez-Lainz, PhD, Miguel Fraga, MD, Stephanie Brodine, MD, Amanda Pietrucha, MPH, Amanda J. Rondinelli, MPH, Rafael Laniado-Laborín, MD, MPH, Elvira Ibarra, MD and Alejandro R. Cañez Mancillas, BA
     
11:06am
Factors associated with delayed care seeking , diagnosis and non-adherence to treatment for TB in African high burden TB/HIV countries: A systematic review
Ramona Finnie, DrPH, MPH, CHES

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Epidemiology, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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