Social Enterprise Model (SEM) for private sector tuberculosis screening and care in Bangladesh.
Sayera BanuFarhana HaqueShahriar AhmedSonia SultanaMd Mahfuzur RahmanRazia KhatunKishor Kumar PaulSenjuti KabirSyed Mohammad Mazidur RahmanRupali Sisir BanuMd Shamiul IslamAllen G RossJohn D ClemensRobert StevensJacob CreswellPublished in: PloS one (2020)
The model established a network of private providers who referred individuals with presumptive tuberculosis without financial incentives to icddr,b's screening centres, facilitating a quarter of total tuberculosis notifications in Dhaka Metropolitan Area. Scaling up this approach may enhance national and international tuberculosis response.