Publications by authors named "Paul Kaumba"
Background: Globally, at least 3 million TB patients are missed every year. In Zambia, the TB treatment coverage increased from 66% in 2020 to 92% in 2022. Involvement of all levels of health care service delivery is critical to finding all the missing TB patients.
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- Zambia has a high burden of tuberculosis (TB), particularly in children, with many remaining undiagnosed while healthcare workers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards childhood TB were assessed.
- Data collected from 237 healthcare workers in Lusaka revealed that many lack proper training in TB, and the majority scored poorly in KAP evaluations, although a considerable proportion showed good knowledge and practices.
- Analysis showed that clinical officers and those with 1-5 years of experience had better attitudes towards childhood TB, while medical doctors had lower odds of showing good attitudes compared to other healthcare workers.
Introduction: Tracing patients lost to follow-up (LTFU) from HIV care is widely practiced, yet we have little knowledge of its causal effect on care engagement. In a prospective, Zambian cohort, we examined the effect of tracing on return to care within 2 years of LTFU.
Methods: We traced a stratified, random sample of LTFU patients who had received HIV care between August 2013 and July 2015.