Isoniazid Preventive Therapy
Adherence to Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) among Children in Close Contact with Adult Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) Patients
... newly diagnosed PTB cases were recruited for the study. They were screened for HIV and evaluated for TB using clinical features and standard laboratory investigations. Those without active TB disease were commenced on ...
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Adherence to isoniazid preventive therapy in Indonesian children: A quantitative and qualitative investigation
... Increased risk of infection by Mycobacterium tuberculo- sis among children in contact with a sputum smear positive tuberculosis case is well documented [1-4]. Further, risk of progression to disease following infec- tion ...
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Impact of isoniazid preventive therapy on mortality among children less than 5 years old following exposure to tuberculosis at home in Guinea-Bissau: a prospective cohort study
... In the present study, we have shown the impact of the IPT programme on mortality among children less than 5 years of age exposed to adult TB. Children exposed to TB in 1996 – 1998, when IPT was not available in the area, ...
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The timing of tuberculosis after isoniazid preventive therapy among gold miners in South Africa: a prospective cohort study
... Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) is part of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s 3Is strategy formulated to reduce the burden of TB in people living with HIV ...daily isoniazid has been ...
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Effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on tuberculosis incidence and associated risk factors among HIV infected adults in Tanzania: a retrospective cohort study
... The demographic and clinical characteristics of the study participants are shown in Table 1. A total of 68,378 HIV positive adults were studied. Majority 51,486 (75.3%) were females. Most of the participants 41,090 ...
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Provision and awareness for isoniazid preventive therapy among PLHIV in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... Background: The risk of acquiring tuberculosis by People living with HIV (PLHIV) could significantly be reduced through provision of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT). In Ethiopia, it is neither ...
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Prevalence and Factors Associated With Initiation of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy among Children Aged Below Five Years in Kisumu County
... Abstract- Tuberculosis is a crucial global public health problem which ranks second to HIV/AIDS as cause of mortality and is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS. Kenya is ...
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Completion of isoniazid preventive therapy among human immunodeficiency virus positive adults in urban Malawi
... untitled INT J TUBERC LUNG DIS 22(3) 273?279 Q 2018 Thindwa et al http //dx doi org/10 5588/ijtld 17 0370 Completion of isoniazid preventive therapy among human immunodeficiency virus positive adults[.] ...
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Assessment of isoniazid preventive therapy in the reduction of tuberculosis among ART patients in Arba Minch Hospital, Ethiopia
... antiretroviral therapy (ART). Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) and cotrimoxazole prophylaxis have been recommended for the benefit of HIV/AIDS-infected individuals to prevent opportunistic ...
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The protective effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on tuberculosis incidence among HIV positive patients receiving ART in Ethiopian settings: a meta analysis
... antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the single most significant way to reduce incident TB in PLWH, HIV positive patients receiving ART remain very suscep- tible to ...initiation, isoniazid preventive ...
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Isoniazid Preventive Therapy Associated Hepatotoxicity among Children Living with HIV: Descriptive Case Series at Mildmay Uganda HIV/AIDS Clinic, Uganda
... of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) as part of the comprehensive TB/HIV prevention intervention for people living with HIV & AIDS was recommended by WHO in ...that Isoniazid (INH) ...
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Effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on tuberculosis or death in persons with HIV: a retrospective cohort study
... IPT & ART were adjusted to the baseline covariates: gender, age, baseline body weight, baseline CD4 count, cotrimoxazole prophylaxis ever use, baseline WHO functional status, baseline WH[r] ...
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Effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on immune responses to mycobacterium tuberculosis: an open label randomised, controlled, exploratory study
... Net cytokine production after subtraction of spontaneous cytokine production was determined in response to TB antigens ESAT-6, CFP-10 and TB7.7 peptide 4 in QFN supernatants tested for c[r] ...
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Self-reported adherence and associated factors to isoniazid preventive therapy for latent tuberculosis among people living with HIV/AIDS at health centers in Gondar town, North West Ethiopia
... Among the reasons for good adherence, explanation and counseling about IPT and TB secondary to HIV/AIDS was a major one, and most of the adherent participants had a good understanding of the benefits of IPT from their ...
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Correlates of isoniazid preventive therapy failure in child household contacts with infectious tuberculosis in high burden settings in Nairobi, Kenya – a cohort study
... Operational challenges within health system are often barriers to adherence. Though, reported by 70.1% of households, this was not associated with IPT failure. A South African study observed that IPT program pro- viders ...
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Interventions to improve delivery of isoniazid preventive therapy: an overview of systematic reviews
... To provide decision makers with the evidence they need, we performed an overview of systematic reviews to compare different organizational interventions to improve IPT delivery as measur[r] ...
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Acceptability and adherence to Isoniazid preventive therapy in HIV infected patients clinically screened for latent tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
... We conducted the present study to assess acceptability, adherence and completion profile of IPT among HIV infected patients who were clinically screened for LTBI in Dar es Salaam, Tanzan[r] ...
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Human immunodeficiency virus associated tuberculosis care in Botswana: evidence from a real world setting
... This retrospective cohort study was conducted in Botswana in the Serowe/Palapye district, a largely urban district with a high burden of HIV-associated TB with a high case fatality, at Segkoma and Palapye hospitals and ...
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Modelling the cost-effectiveness of a new infant vaccine to prevent tuberculosis disease in children in South Africa
... (b) isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT), as the effect would have been equal in both arms; (c) BCG disseminated disease (a side-effect of BCG vac- cination), as the effect would have been equal in ...
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Rapid urine lipoarabinomannan assay as a clinic-based screening test for active tuberculosis at HIV diagnosis
... antiretroviral therapy and isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) initiation while awaiting sputum- based diagnostic testing, inadequate provision of IPT, overprescribing of empiric TB ...
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