Factors associated with default from treatment among tuberculosis patients in Nairobi province, Kenya: a case control study.

Background: Successful treatment of tuberculosis (TB) involves taking anti-tuberculosis drugs for at least six months. Poor adherence to treatment means patients remain infectious for longer, are more likely to relapse or succumb to tuberculosis and could result in treatment failure as well as foster emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. Kenya is among countries with high tuberculosis burden globally.

Public-private mix for control of tuberculosis and TB-HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: outcomes, opportunities and obstacles.

Setting: Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

Objective: To promote standardised tuberculosis (TB) care by private health providers and links with the public sector.

Design And Methods: A description of the results of interventions aimed at engaging private health providers in TB care and control in Nairobi.

National scale-up of HIV testing and provision of HIV care to tuberculosis patients in Kenya.

Setting: Kenya, one of the 22 tuberculosis (TB) high-burden countries, whose TB burden is fuelled by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Objective: To monitor and evaluate the implementation of HIV testing and provision of HIV care to TB patients in Kenya through the establishment of a routine TB-HIV integrated surveillance system.

Design: A descriptive report of the status of implementation of HIV testing and provision of HIV interventions to TB patients one year after the introduction of the revised TB case recording and reporting system.