Achieving a "step change" in the tuberculosis epidemic through comprehensive community-wide intervention: a model-based analysis.
Sourya ShresthaEmily A KendallRebekah ChangRoy JosephParastu KasaieLaura GilliniAnthony Todd FojoMichael CampbellNimalan ArinaminpathyDavid W DowdyPublished in: BMC medicine (2021)
A one-time, community-wide mass campaign, comprehensively designed to detect, treat, and prevent tuberculosis with currently existing tools can have a meaningful and long-lasting epidemiological impact. Successful treatment of LTBI is critical to achieving this result. Health system strengthening is essential to any effort to transform the TB response.