Table 3.

The impact of armed conflict on tuberculosis treatment outcomes

Author	Conflict status	Number treated	Treatment success	↑/↓	Poor treatment outcomes	↑/↓
Improved treatment outcomes
Hassanain et al (2018)*21	Affected	16 658	14 191 (85.2%)	↑	2467 (14.8%)	↓
	Not affected	35 990	29 556 (82.1%)		6434 (17.9%)
Ahmadzai et al (2008)16	Affected	24 579	21 263 (87.3%)	↑	2291 (9.4%)	↓
	Not affected	9209	7794 (84.6%)		1168 (12.7%)
Martins et al (2006)23	Affected	–	65% (2000), 73% (2001), 81% (2002 and 2003)	↑	33% (2000), 21% (2001), 17% (2002), 16% (2003)	↓
	Not affected	–	50% (1997)		47.7% (1997)
Pembi et al (2020)24	Affected	12 150	–	–	140 (1.2%)†	↓
	Not affected	8826	–		184 (2.1%)†
Worsened treatment outcomes
Desta et al (2018)17	Affected	–	76% (2001), 76% (2002), 70% (2003)	↓	–	–
	Not affected	–	74% (2004), 75% (2005), 81% (2006 & 2007), 67% (2008), 80% (2009), 82% (2010), 86% (2011), 87% (2012), 83% (2013)		–
Daix et al (2013)25	Affected		16% (2002), 71% (2003), 50% (2004),66% (2005), 64% (2006), 66% (2007)	↓	–	–
	Not affected		69% (2002), 73% (2003), 73% (2004), 74% (2005), 77% (2006), 73% (2007)		–
M’Boussa et al (2002)*‡22	Affected	2048	1414 (69.0%)	↓	578 (28.2%)	↑
	Not affected	3503	2467 (70.4%)		913 (26.1%)
Gustafson et al (2001)19	Affected	143	–	–	20 (14.0%)§	↑
	Not affected	177	–		11 (6.2%)§
Gustafson et al (2007)20	Affected	484	–	–	95 (19.6%)¶	↑
	Not affected	225	–		30 (13.3%)¶

*Treatment outcome data were not available for all because of transfers and other reasons.

†Failure plus loss to follow-up.

‡Data for 1996–1998 were not available because of the conflict.

§Death.

¶Death plus loss to follow-up.