Pub Date : 2025-01-14DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00505-9
Christopher Finn McQuaid,Rebecca A Clark,Richard G White,Roel Bakker,Peter Alexander,Roslyn Henry,Banurekha Velayutham,Malaisamy Muniyandi,Pranay Sinha,Madhavi Bhargava,Anurag Bhargava,Rein M G J Houben
BACKGROUNDApproximately 20% of global tuberculosis incidence is attributable to undernutrition, increasing to more than a third in India. Targeting nutritional interventions to tuberculosis-affected households is a policy priority, but understanding of epidemiological and economic impacts is limited. We aimed to estimate the population-level epidemiological and economic effect of such an intervention.METHODSWe used a previously published, age-stratified, compartmental transmission model of tuberculosis in India, and incorporated explicit BMI strata linked to disease progression and treatment outcomes. We used results from a recent trial of an intervention in which nutritional support in the form of food baskets was provided to people initiating tuberculosis treatment and to their household contacts (1200 kcal for patients and 750 kcal for contacts) to inform estimates of the impact and costs of nutritional support. We estimated the numbers of cases of tuberculosis disease and deaths due to tuberculosis disease that could be averted from 2023 to 2035 under the intervention scenario.FINDINGSCompared with a baseline with no nutritional intervention, at 50% coverage of adults on tuberculosis treatment and their households (around 23% of households affected by incident tuberculosis in India), providing the nutritional support intervention could prevent 361 200 (95% uncertainty interval 318 000-437 700) tuberculosis deaths and 880 700 (802 700-974 900) disease episodes from 2023 to 2035. This would be equivalent to averting approximately 4·6% (4·2-5·5) tuberculosis deaths and 2·2% (2·1-2·4) tuberculosis episodes. The additional health system cost would be US$1349 million (1221-1492), with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $167 (147-187) per disability-adjusted life-year averted. The median number of households needed to treat to prevent one tuberculosis death was 24·4 and to prevent one tuberculosis case was 10·0.INTERPRETATIONA nutritional intervention for tuberculosis-affected households could avert a substantial amount of tuberculosis disease and death in India, and would be highly likely to be cost-effective on the basis of the tuberculosis-specific benefits alone.FUNDINGNone.TRANSLATIONSFor the Bangla and Hindi translations of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.
{"title":"Estimating the epidemiological and economic impact of providing nutritional care for tuberculosis-affected households across India: a modelling study.","authors":"Christopher Finn McQuaid,Rebecca A Clark,Richard G White,Roel Bakker,Peter Alexander,Roslyn Henry,Banurekha Velayutham,Malaisamy Muniyandi,Pranay Sinha,Madhavi Bhargava,Anurag Bhargava,Rein M G J Houben","doi":"10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00505-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00505-9","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUNDApproximately 20% of global tuberculosis incidence is attributable to undernutrition, increasing to more than a third in India. Targeting nutritional interventions to tuberculosis-affected households is a policy priority, but understanding of epidemiological and economic impacts is limited. We aimed to estimate the population-level epidemiological and economic effect of such an intervention.METHODSWe used a previously published, age-stratified, compartmental transmission model of tuberculosis in India, and incorporated explicit BMI strata linked to disease progression and treatment outcomes. We used results from a recent trial of an intervention in which nutritional support in the form of food baskets was provided to people initiating tuberculosis treatment and to their household contacts (1200 kcal for patients and 750 kcal for contacts) to inform estimates of the impact and costs of nutritional support. We estimated the numbers of cases of tuberculosis disease and deaths due to tuberculosis disease that could be averted from 2023 to 2035 under the intervention scenario.FINDINGSCompared with a baseline with no nutritional intervention, at 50% coverage of adults on tuberculosis treatment and their households (around 23% of households affected by incident tuberculosis in India), providing the nutritional support intervention could prevent 361 200 (95% uncertainty interval 318 000-437 700) tuberculosis deaths and 880 700 (802 700-974 900) disease episodes from 2023 to 2035. This would be equivalent to averting approximately 4·6% (4·2-5·5) tuberculosis deaths and 2·2% (2·1-2·4) tuberculosis episodes. The additional health system cost would be US$1349 million (1221-1492), with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $167 (147-187) per disability-adjusted life-year averted. The median number of households needed to treat to prevent one tuberculosis death was 24·4 and to prevent one tuberculosis case was 10·0.INTERPRETATIONA nutritional intervention for tuberculosis-affected households could avert a substantial amount of tuberculosis disease and death in India, and would be highly likely to be cost-effective on the basis of the tuberculosis-specific benefits alone.FUNDINGNone.TRANSLATIONSFor the Bangla and Hindi translations of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.","PeriodicalId":48783,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Global Health","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-14DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00554-0
Nandini Sharma,Saurav Basu
{"title":"Strengthening nutritional care to end tuberculosis in India.","authors":"Nandini Sharma,Saurav Basu","doi":"10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00554-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00554-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48783,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Global Health","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00421-2
Georgiana M Gordon-Strachan, Stephanie Y Parker, Heather C Harewood, Pablo A Méndez-Lázaro, Salanieta T Saketa, Kimalie F Parchment, Maria Walawender, Abdullahi O Abdulkadri, Paul J Beggs, Daniel F Buss, Riley J Chodak, Shouro Dasgupta, Olga De Santis, Natalie G Guthrie-Dixon, Saria Hassan, Harry Kennard, Sandeep B Maharaj, Kwesi G Marshall, Shelly R McFarlane, Kimberley S McKenzie, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Madhuvanti Murphy, Michelle A Mycoo, Roannie Ng Shiu, Megan B O'Hare, Christopher A L Oura, Fereidoon Owfi, Ali Owfi, Karen A Polson, Mahnaz Rabbaniha, Elizabeth J Z Robinson, David C Smith, Meisam Tabatabaei, Lanea L Tuiasosopo, Marina Romanello
{"title":"The 2024 small island developing states report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change.","authors":"Georgiana M Gordon-Strachan, Stephanie Y Parker, Heather C Harewood, Pablo A Méndez-Lázaro, Salanieta T Saketa, Kimalie F Parchment, Maria Walawender, Abdullahi O Abdulkadri, Paul J Beggs, Daniel F Buss, Riley J Chodak, Shouro Dasgupta, Olga De Santis, Natalie G Guthrie-Dixon, Saria Hassan, Harry Kennard, Sandeep B Maharaj, Kwesi G Marshall, Shelly R McFarlane, Kimberley S McKenzie, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Madhuvanti Murphy, Michelle A Mycoo, Roannie Ng Shiu, Megan B O'Hare, Christopher A L Oura, Fereidoon Owfi, Ali Owfi, Karen A Polson, Mahnaz Rabbaniha, Elizabeth J Z Robinson, David C Smith, Meisam Tabatabaei, Lanea L Tuiasosopo, Marina Romanello","doi":"10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00421-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00421-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48783,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Global Health","volume":" ","pages":"e146-e166"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00424-8
Carolina Cardona, Jean Christophe Rusatira, Carolina Salmeron, Michelle Martinez-Baack, Jose G Rimon, Philip Anglewicz, Saifuddin Ahmed
Background: Despite increases in modern contraception use, socioeconomic inequalities in family planning persist. In this study, we aimed to measure progress in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) and demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods (mDFPS) in 48 countries as part of the Family Planning 2030 (FP2030) initiative between 1990 and 2020 for which Demographic and Health Survey data were available.
Methods: We analysed two rounds of Demographic and Health Survey data per country. Changes in concentration indices between two survey rounds were compared to measure reductions in overall socioeconomic-related inequalities in modern contraceptive use. Poisson regression models were used to measure the adjusted average annual rate of change across wealth quintiles.
Findings: In this population-based analysis study, all countries reduced socioeconomic-related inequalities in modern contraceptive use among in-union women of reproductive age (15-49 years) during the observed 30-year period. On average, mCPR increased at an annual rate of 2·1% (95% CI 2·1-2·2), and the rate of increase for the poorest women was 3·1% (3·0-3·2), which outpaced the rate of increase for the richest women of 1·3% (1·3-1·4%). The pattern of progress was similar for mDFPS, but at a slower pace. Overall, levels of mCPR and mDFPS increased, and socioeconomic-related inequalities were reduced during this period.
Interpretation: Substantial progress has been made in reducing socioeconomic-related inequalities in family planning across the 48 studied countries, which account for 86% of the population of the 82 FP2030 initiative countries. During the past three decades, poorer women have seen greater improvements in modern contraceptive use and demand satisfaction compared with richer women. As contraceptive prevalence rates are near their maximum, it is crucial to ensure marginalised and vulnerable groups are not left behind.
Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Translations: For the French and Spanish translations of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-03DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00444-3
Omar Syarif, Rita Oladele, Tinne Gils, Radha Rajasingham, Jonathan Falconer, Pamela Achii, Edna Tembo, Donald Denis Tobaiwa, Kenneth Mwehonge, Charlotte Schutz, Nelesh P Govender, Graeme Meintjes, David B Meya, Angela Loyse
{"title":"Resolving the CD4-testing crisis to help end AIDS-related deaths.","authors":"Omar Syarif, Rita Oladele, Tinne Gils, Radha Rajasingham, Jonathan Falconer, Pamela Achii, Edna Tembo, Donald Denis Tobaiwa, Kenneth Mwehonge, Charlotte Schutz, Nelesh P Govender, Graeme Meintjes, David B Meya, Angela Loyse","doi":"10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00444-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00444-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48783,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Global Health","volume":" ","pages":"e16-e18"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142570267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00428-5
Jai K Das, Rehana A Salam, Zahra Ali Padhani, Arjumand Rizvi, Mushtaq Mirani, Muhammad Khan Jamali, Imran Ahmed Chauhadry, Imtiaz Sheikh, Sana Khatoon, Khan Muhammad, Rasool Bux, Anjum Naqvi, Fariha Shaheen, Rafey Ali, Sajid Muhammad, Simon Cousens, Zulfiqar A Bhutta
<p><strong>Background: </strong>Infectious diseases remain the leading cause of death among children younger than 5 years due to disparities in access and acceptance of essential interventions. The Community Mobilisation and Community Incentivisation (CoMIC) trial was designed to evaluate a customised community mobilisation and incentivisation strategy for improving coverage of evidence-based interventions for child health in Pakistan.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>CoMIC was a three-arm cluster-randomised, controlled trial in rural areas of Pakistan. Clusters were formed by grouping villages based on geographical proximity, ethnic consistency, and ensuring a population between 1500 to 3000 per cluster. Clusters were randomly assigned (1:1:1) to either community mobilisation, community mobilisation and incentivisation, or the control arm. Community mobilisation included formation of village committees which conducted awareness activities, while clusters in the community mobilisation and incentivisation group were provided with a novel conditional, collective, community-based incentive (C3I) in addition to community mobilisation. C3I was conditioned on serial incremental targets for collective improvement in coverage at cluster level of three key indicators (primary outcomes): proportion of fully immunised children, use of oral rehydration solution, and sanitation index, assessed at 6 months, 15 months, and 24 months, and village committees decided on non-cash incentives for people in the villages. Data were analysed as intention-to-treat by an independent team masked to study groups. The trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03594279, and is completed.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Between Oct 1, 2018 and Oct 31, 2020, 21 638 children younger than 5 years from 24 846 households, with a total population of 139 005 in 48 clusters, were included in the study. 16 clusters comprising of 152 villages and 7361 children younger than 5 years were randomly assigned to the community mobilisation and incentivisation group; 16 clusters comprising of 166 villages and 7546 children younger than 5 years were randomly assigned to the community mobilisation group; and 16 clusters comprising of 139 villages and 6731 children younger than 5 years were randomly assigned to the control group. Endline analyses were conducted on 3812 children (1284 in the community mobilisation and incentivisation group, 1276 in the community mobilisation group, and 1252 in the control group). Multivariable analysis indicates improvements in all primary outcomes including a higher proportion of fully immunised children (risk ratio [RR] 1·3 [95% CI 1·0-1·5]), higher total sanitation index (mean difference 1·3 [95% CI 0·6-1·9]), and increased oral rehydration solution use (RR 1·5 [1·0-2·2]) in the community mobilisation and incentivisation group compared with the control group at 24 months. There was no evidence of difference between community mobilisation and control for any
{"title":"An innovative Community Mobilisation and Community Incentivisation for child health in rural Pakistan (CoMIC): a cluster-randomised, controlled trial.","authors":"Jai K Das, Rehana A Salam, Zahra Ali Padhani, Arjumand Rizvi, Mushtaq Mirani, Muhammad Khan Jamali, Imran Ahmed Chauhadry, Imtiaz Sheikh, Sana Khatoon, Khan Muhammad, Rasool Bux, Anjum Naqvi, Fariha Shaheen, Rafey Ali, Sajid Muhammad, Simon Cousens, Zulfiqar A Bhutta","doi":"10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00428-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00428-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Infectious diseases remain the leading cause of death among children younger than 5 years due to disparities in access and acceptance of essential interventions. The Community Mobilisation and Community Incentivisation (CoMIC) trial was designed to evaluate a customised community mobilisation and incentivisation strategy for improving coverage of evidence-based interventions for child health in Pakistan.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>CoMIC was a three-arm cluster-randomised, controlled trial in rural areas of Pakistan. Clusters were formed by grouping villages based on geographical proximity, ethnic consistency, and ensuring a population between 1500 to 3000 per cluster. Clusters were randomly assigned (1:1:1) to either community mobilisation, community mobilisation and incentivisation, or the control arm. Community mobilisation included formation of village committees which conducted awareness activities, while clusters in the community mobilisation and incentivisation group were provided with a novel conditional, collective, community-based incentive (C3I) in addition to community mobilisation. C3I was conditioned on serial incremental targets for collective improvement in coverage at cluster level of three key indicators (primary outcomes): proportion of fully immunised children, use of oral rehydration solution, and sanitation index, assessed at 6 months, 15 months, and 24 months, and village committees decided on non-cash incentives for people in the villages. Data were analysed as intention-to-treat by an independent team masked to study groups. The trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03594279, and is completed.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Between Oct 1, 2018 and Oct 31, 2020, 21 638 children younger than 5 years from 24 846 households, with a total population of 139 005 in 48 clusters, were included in the study. 16 clusters comprising of 152 villages and 7361 children younger than 5 years were randomly assigned to the community mobilisation and incentivisation group; 16 clusters comprising of 166 villages and 7546 children younger than 5 years were randomly assigned to the community mobilisation group; and 16 clusters comprising of 139 villages and 6731 children younger than 5 years were randomly assigned to the control group. Endline analyses were conducted on 3812 children (1284 in the community mobilisation and incentivisation group, 1276 in the community mobilisation group, and 1252 in the control group). Multivariable analysis indicates improvements in all primary outcomes including a higher proportion of fully immunised children (risk ratio [RR] 1·3 [95% CI 1·0-1·5]), higher total sanitation index (mean difference 1·3 [95% CI 0·6-1·9]), and increased oral rehydration solution use (RR 1·5 [1·0-2·2]) in the community mobilisation and incentivisation group compared with the control group at 24 months. There was no evidence of difference between community mobilisation and control for any ","PeriodicalId":48783,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Global Health","volume":"13 1","pages":"e121-e133"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11659842/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00383-8
Karen du Preez, Helen E Jenkins, Leonardo Martinez, Silvia S Chiang, Sicelo S Dlamini, Mariia Dolynska, Andrii Aleksandrin, Julia Kobe, Stephen M Graham, Anneke C Hesseling, Jeffrey R Starke, James A Seddon, Peter J Dodd
<p><strong>Background: </strong>Tuberculous meningitis is fatal if untreated and can lead to lifelong neurological sequelae. However, to our knowledge, there are no data on the number of children affected by this disease. We aimed to estimate the global disease burden and attributable mortality of childhood tuberculous meningitis by WHO regions, age groups, treatment status, and HIV status in 2019.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We developed a Bayesian mathematical model to estimate the number of children aged 0-14 years who developed tuberculous meningitis, died from tuberculous meningitis, and did not die from tuberculous meningitis but had neurological sequelae in 2019. We reviewed the literature and used meta-analyses to quantify key parameters used as model inputs: risk of tuberculous meningitis after Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, tuberculous meningitis as a proportion of tuberculosis notification data (ie, routine surveillance data that countries report to WHO), and risk ratios for tuberculous-meningitis mortality by age group. We identified routine tuberculosis surveillance data from countries and literature that reported the proportion of notified childhood tuberculosis that was due to tuberculous meningitis. Country-level data were from Brazil; the USA; Ukraine; South Africa; and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which included 29 countries but was aggregated and considered as one site. We assumed tuberculosis notification was synonymous with detection and treatment, combined age-disaggregated risk ratios and published meta-analytic estimates of the case-fatality rate in children who received treatment to produce estimates of tuberculous-meningitis mortality by age group and HIV status, and assumed that untreated tuberculous meningitis was always fatal. We assumed similar age-disaggregated risk ratios for neurological sequelae among children who had treatment for tuberculous meningitis and lived as for children who died.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>An estimated 24 000 (95% credible interval 22 300-25 700) children younger than 15 years developed tuberculous meningitis in 2019. Of these children, 13 000 (12 100-13 900) were estimated to have been diagnosed and treated for tuberculous meningitis. Most untreated children were younger than 5 years. Among the 24 000 children with tuberculous meningitis, 16 100 (14 900-17 300) were estimated to have died in 2019, of whom 1101 (6·8%) had HIV. 13 380 (83·1%) of 16 100 deaths were estimated to be in children younger than 5 years and 11 000 (68·3%) were estimated to be in children who did not receive tuberculous-meningitis treatment. Of the 7900 (5800-10 000) children who did not die, 5550 (5110-5980) were estimated to have neurological sequelae.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Our estimates of tuberculous meningitis in children younger than 15 years showed substantial mortality and morbidity. Improved diagnostics and strong health-care systems to facilit
{"title":"Global burden of tuberculous meningitis in children aged 0-14 years in 2019: a mathematical modelling study.","authors":"Karen du Preez, Helen E Jenkins, Leonardo Martinez, Silvia S Chiang, Sicelo S Dlamini, Mariia Dolynska, Andrii Aleksandrin, Julia Kobe, Stephen M Graham, Anneke C Hesseling, Jeffrey R Starke, James A Seddon, Peter J Dodd","doi":"10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00383-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00383-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Tuberculous meningitis is fatal if untreated and can lead to lifelong neurological sequelae. However, to our knowledge, there are no data on the number of children affected by this disease. We aimed to estimate the global disease burden and attributable mortality of childhood tuberculous meningitis by WHO regions, age groups, treatment status, and HIV status in 2019.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We developed a Bayesian mathematical model to estimate the number of children aged 0-14 years who developed tuberculous meningitis, died from tuberculous meningitis, and did not die from tuberculous meningitis but had neurological sequelae in 2019. We reviewed the literature and used meta-analyses to quantify key parameters used as model inputs: risk of tuberculous meningitis after Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, tuberculous meningitis as a proportion of tuberculosis notification data (ie, routine surveillance data that countries report to WHO), and risk ratios for tuberculous-meningitis mortality by age group. We identified routine tuberculosis surveillance data from countries and literature that reported the proportion of notified childhood tuberculosis that was due to tuberculous meningitis. Country-level data were from Brazil; the USA; Ukraine; South Africa; and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which included 29 countries but was aggregated and considered as one site. We assumed tuberculosis notification was synonymous with detection and treatment, combined age-disaggregated risk ratios and published meta-analytic estimates of the case-fatality rate in children who received treatment to produce estimates of tuberculous-meningitis mortality by age group and HIV status, and assumed that untreated tuberculous meningitis was always fatal. We assumed similar age-disaggregated risk ratios for neurological sequelae among children who had treatment for tuberculous meningitis and lived as for children who died.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>An estimated 24 000 (95% credible interval 22 300-25 700) children younger than 15 years developed tuberculous meningitis in 2019. Of these children, 13 000 (12 100-13 900) were estimated to have been diagnosed and treated for tuberculous meningitis. Most untreated children were younger than 5 years. Among the 24 000 children with tuberculous meningitis, 16 100 (14 900-17 300) were estimated to have died in 2019, of whom 1101 (6·8%) had HIV. 13 380 (83·1%) of 16 100 deaths were estimated to be in children younger than 5 years and 11 000 (68·3%) were estimated to be in children who did not receive tuberculous-meningitis treatment. Of the 7900 (5800-10 000) children who did not die, 5550 (5110-5980) were estimated to have neurological sequelae.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Our estimates of tuberculous meningitis in children younger than 15 years showed substantial mortality and morbidity. Improved diagnostics and strong health-care systems to facilit","PeriodicalId":48783,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Global Health","volume":"13 1","pages":"e59-e68"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11729397/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00416-9
Margit Endler, Unnop Jaisamrarn, Suneeta Mittal, Phutrakool Phanupong, Du Van Du, Toan Anh Ngo, Hans Vemer, A Metin Gülmezoglu, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson
<p><strong>Background: </strong>Optimising management of second-trimester medical abortion is important, as complications increase with gestational age. We aimed to compare a 24-h interval with a 48-h interval between mifepristone intake and misoprostol administration in in-hospital, second-trimester medical abortion for effectiveness and acceptability.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This open-label, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial was conducted at nine hospitals in India, Sweden, Thailand, and Viet Nam among adults undergoing medical abortion for a singleton viable pregnancy at a gestation of between 9 weeks and 20 weeks. Participants were randomly assigned (1:1) via central computer-generated sequence stratified by study site to receive 200 mg mifepristone orally and (after being admitted to hospital) 800 μg misoprostol vaginally either 24 h (the intervention) or 48 h (the control) later followed by 400 μg misoprostol sublingually every 3 h. If no abortion occurred after five doses, the 200 mg mifepristone was repeated, followed by the same misoprostol regimen the following day. The participants, researchers, and clinic staff were not masked to the allocation group. The primary outcome was complete fetal expulsion (herein defined as successful abortion) within 12 h of the initial misoprostol dose. The non-inferiority margin was set at 5%. Outcomes were compared in the modified intention-to-treat (mITT) population, from which randomly assigned participants who discontinued before receiving mifepristone or misoprostol were excluded. This trial is registered as an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial, number ISRCTN49711891, and is completed.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Between Feb 18, 2015, and Oct 15, 2016, we screened 724 individuals and 540 participants were enrolled in the study (271 in the 24-h interval group and 269 in the 48-h interval group). Nine participants were excluded from analysis because they did not return for either mifepristone intake or misoprostol administration. The mITT population therefore consisted of 531 participants, of whom 266 were allocated to the 24-h interval group and 265 to the 48-h interval group. By mITT, the succsessful abortion rate within 12 h was 89% (236 of 266 participants) in the 24-h interval group and 94% (248 of 265 participants) in the 48-h interval group (odds ratio 0·54, 95% CI 0·29-1·00). The risk difference was -4·86% (95% CI -0·05 to -9·67), which exceeded our non-inferiority margin of 5%. One participant in the 24-h interval group died following an otherwise uncomplicated abortion from what was assessed as being an amniotic fluid embolism unrelated to their participation in the trial. The most common adverse events in both groups were heavy bleeding, shivering, fever, and nausea.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>A 24-h interval between mifepristone intake and misoprostol administration has a lower rate of successful abortion within 12 h than a 48-h interva
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