Publications by authors named "K A Meyerson"

Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) treatment for children frequently includes unpalatable drugs with low overall acceptability. This can negatively impact children and their caregivers´ treatment experiences and is an important contributor to poor adherence, and potentially, poor treatment outcomes. Children and their caregivers´ preferences for MDR-TB treatment are not well documented.

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  • * Researchers conducted a review of TPT implementation across various health facilities and identified several barriers including health worker skepticism, ineffective tracing, and a lack of resources and education about TPT.
  • * To improve TPT uptake, the authors suggest that simpler implementation systems and better training for health workers are essential, along with community partnerships to encourage more people to access these services.
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Reported barriers to HIV testing over the last 15 years have remained consistent, despite improved service offerings. We aimed to probe deeper by exploring how people who have never tested construct HIV testing in their talk. We used this to suggest underlying psychosocial barriers to testing even when there is high availability.

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There are an estimated 32,000 incident cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children globally each year. Extended hospitalisation is often required to ensure optimal adherence to the complex multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment regimen. Hospitalisation usually results in caregiver-child separation which is known to cause psychological difficulties in children.

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Tuberculosis is the number one infectious cause of death globally. Young children, generally those younger than 5 years, are at the highest risk of progressing from tuberculosis infection to tuberculosis disease and of developing the most severe forms of tuberculosis. Most current tuberculosis drug formulations have poor acceptability among children and require consistent adherence for prolonged periods of time.

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