RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19
JF Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
JO J Epidemiol Community Health
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP jech-2021-217529
DO 10.1136/jech-2021-217529
A1 Zimmer, Alexandra Jaye
A1 Klinton, Joel Shyam
A1 Oga-Omenka, Charity
A1 Heitkamp, Petra
A1 Nawina Nyirenda, Carol
A1 Furin, Jennifer
A1 Pai, Madhukar
YR 2021
UL http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2022/01/12/jech-2021-217529.abstract
AB The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruptions to tuberculosis (TB) care and service delivery in 2020, setting back progress in the fight against TB by several years. As newer COVID-19 variants continue to devastate many low and middle-income countries in 2021, the extent of this setback is likely to increase. Despite these challenges, the TB community can draw on the comprehensive approaches used to manage COVID-19 to help restore progress and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on TB. Our team developed the ‘Swiss Cheese Model for Ending TB’ to illustrate that it is only through multisectoral collaborations that address the personal, societal and health system layers of care that we will end TB. In this paper, we examine how COVID-19 has impacted the different layers of TB care presented in the model and explore how we can leverage some of the lessons and outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen the global TB response.No data are available. Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.