ISSUES TO BE CONSIDERED WHEN IMPLEMENTING THE STANDARDIZED TUBERCULOSIS CONTACT INVESTIGATION IN A SETTING WITH ROUTINE TUBERCULOSIS CONTACT INVITATION: AN EXPERIENCE FROM THE KISUMU COUNTY, WESTERN KENYA, 2014-2015

INTRODUCTION: Persons in close proximity with Tuberculosis (TB) Brow Kit patients are at risk of TB infection.Contact investigation (CI) has not been scaled up to full implementation by the National Tuberculosis Program in Kenya.As part of a TB household CI study, we documented key concerns that the TB program in Kenya need to consider when transit

In common with local government organisations across the world, local authorities in the UK have responsibility for promoting health.A key part of this function is the frontline enforcement activities of officers responsible for compliance with health and nutrition claims.This study identifies attitudes, values and practices of enforcers: namely tr

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In recent years, Portugal has seen wide variability in wildfire damage associated to high unpredictability of climatic events such as severe heatwaves and drier summers.Therefore, timely and accurate detection of forest and rural wildfires is of great importance for successful fire containment and suppression efforts, as wildfires exponentially inc