Helen Elsey, Irène Akua Agyepong, Rumana Huque, Zahidul Quayyem et al.
The world is now predominantly urban; rapid and uncontrolled urbanisation continues across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Health systems are struggling to respond to the challenges that urbanisation brings. While better-off urbanites can reap the benefits from the 'urban advantage',...
Kate Questa, Munmun Das, Rebecca King, Mark S. Everitt et al.
BACKGROUND: Community engagement (CE) interventions include a range of approaches to involve communities in the improvement of their health and wellbeing. Working with communities defined by location or some other shared interest, these interventions may be important in assisting equity and reach of...
Noêmia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha, Jinshuo Li, Penelope A. Phillips‐Howard, Zahidul Quayyum et al.
BACKGROUND: The growing urban population imposes additional challenges for health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We explored the economic burden and inequities in healthcare utilisation across slum, non-slum and levels of wealth among urban residents in LMICs. METHODS: This sco...
Helen Elsey, Dana R. Thomson, Runtian Lin, Uden Maharjan et al.
Rapid and uncontrolled urbanisation across low and middle-income countries is leading to ever expanding numbers of urban poor, defined here as slum dwellers and the homeless. It is estimated that 828 million people are currently living in slum conditions. If governments, donors and NGOs are to respo...
Alexander Jarde, Eugenia Romano, Saima Afaq, Asma Elsony et al.
Objectives Co-occurrence of tuberculosis (TB) with other chronic conditions (TB multimorbidity) increases complexity of management and adversely affects health outcomes. We aimed to map the prevalence of the co-occurrence of one or more chronic conditions in people with TB and associated health risk...
Sahil Khan Warsi, Helen Elsey, Melanie Boeckmann, Maryam Noor et al.
BACKGROUND: Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately impacted by interacting epidemics of tuberculosis (TB) and tobacco consumption. Research indicates behavioural support delivered by health workers effectively promotes tobacco cessation. There is, however, a paucity of train...
Rumana Huque, Helen Elsey, Fariza Fieroze, Joseph Paul Hicks et al.
BACKGROUND: Understanding of the relationship between multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and mental health is limited. With growing prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, addressing mental ill-health has potential to improve treatment outcomes and well-being. In several low and middle-incom...
Omara Dogar, Ada Keding, Rhian Gabe, Anna‐Marie Marshall et al.
BACKGROUND: Smoking cessation is important in patients with tuberculosis because it can reduce the high rates of treatment failure and mortality. We aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of cystine as a smoking cessation aid in patients with tuberculosis in Bangladesh and Pakistan. METHODS: W...
Ian Walker, Sushil Baral, Xiaolin Wei, Rumana Huque et al.
The successful treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a global health priority and a key pillar of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) End TB strategy. There has been significant global investment in diagnostic capabilities in recent years. However, we argue that the mental di...
Rebecca King, Joseph Paul Hicks, Christian Rassi, Muhammad Shafique et al.
BACKGROUND: Community engagement approaches that have impacted on health outcomes are often time intensive, small-scale and require high levels of financial and human resources. They can be difficult to sustain and scale-up in low resource settings. Given the reach of health services into communitie...
Kamran Siddiqi, Ada Keding, Anna‐Marie Marshall, Omara Dogar et al.
Background Despite treatment, patients with tuberculosis (TB) who smoke have poorer outcomes compared with non-smokers. It is unknown, however, if quitting smoking during the 6 months of TB treatment improves TB outcomes. Methods The TB & Tobacco Trial was a double-blind, placebo-controlled rand...
Rumana Huque, Farid Uddin Ahmed, Rebecca King, John Walley et al.
SETTING: Community health care providers (CHCPs) in 40 rural community clinics of Comilla district, Bangladesh, were trained using a newly developed case-management job aid based on the World Health Organization Integrated Management of Childhood Illness and a communication guide. OBJECTIVES: To ass...
Lauren J. Wallace, Irène Akua Agyepong, Sushil Baral, Deepa Barua et al.
As societies urbanize, their populations have become increasingly dependent on the private sector for essential services. The way the private sector responds to health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic can determine the health and economic wellbeing of urban populations, an effect amplified ...
Omara Dogar, Deepa Barua, Melanie Boeckmann, Helen Elsey et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Tuberculosis (TB) patients who quit smoking have much better disease outcomes than those who continue to smoke. In general populations, behavioural support combined with pharmacotherapy is the most effective strategy in helping people to quit. However, there is no evidence for t...
Bachera Aktar, Wafa Alam, Samiha Ali, Abdul Awal et al.
Safeguarding is rapidly rising up the international development agenda, yet literature on safeguarding in related research is limited. This paper shares processes and practice relating to safeguarding within an international research consortium (the ARISE hub, known as ARISE). ARISE aims to enhance ...