Coping with Africa's increasing tuberculosis burden: Are community supervisors an essential component of the DOT strategy?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 700-704

  Wilkinson, David ^a   Davies, Geraint R ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

control; directly observed therapy; South Africa; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INFECTION CONTROL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

HLABISA; SOUTH AFRICA;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030793455     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-358.x     Document Type: Article

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