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Social and biological factors associated with unsuccessful TB treatment outcome in Ireland 2011-2021

  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
  • Trinity College Dublin

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Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) treatment success rates are crucial for TB control programme evaluations. The World Health Organisation sets targets of > 90% but Ireland remains below 70%. We analysed notifications from the Irish National TB Surveillance System from 2011-2021 to explore factors associated with successful treatment outcome in Ireland.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Public Health
Volume33
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Oct 2023

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Medicine
  • Logistic regression
  • Tuberculosis
  • Odds ratio
  • Tb treatment
  • Odds
  • Demography
  • Antiretroviral treatment
  • Outbreak
  • Internal medicine
  • Family medicine
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Antiretroviral therapy
  • Pathology
  • Sociology
  • Viral load

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