. 2024 Jun 28;9(7):144. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed9070144

Table A3.

Challenges and Strategies Currently Employed in Filling the Gaps.

Challenges	Strategies
(a) Stigmatisation attached to TB in the community (b) Low patient education about contact tracing (c) Most TB patients have little or no information about TB preventive therapy (d) Transport mechanisms in getting the TB preventive therapy clients to get their medications at the facility (e) High cost of demands of TB contact investigation in in terms of transportation	(a) Rigorous counselling sessions and advocacy visits to the community and religious leaders (b) Creating routine awareness about TB disease in the community (c) Portable digital chest X-ray machine from TB-LON 3 funds has helped increase the testing yield of TB cases in communities and schools (d) Provision of incentive to the TB cases so that they can inform their contacts about the need to be screened for TB (e) Having direct communication between the contacts and the service provider for adequate TB education

Challenges

Strategies

(a)
Stigmatisation attached to TB in the community
(b)
Low patient education about contact tracing
(c)
Most TB patients have little or no information about TB preventive therapy
(d)
Transport mechanisms in getting the TB preventive therapy clients to get their medications at the facility
(e)
High cost of demands of TB contact investigation in in terms of transportation

(a)
Rigorous counselling sessions and advocacy visits to the community and religious leaders
(b)
Creating routine awareness about TB disease in the community
(c)
Portable digital chest X-ray machine from TB-LON 3 funds has helped increase the testing yield of TB cases in communities and schools
(d)
Provision of incentive to the TB cases so that they can inform their contacts about the need to be screened for TB
(e)
Having direct communication between the contacts and the service provider for adequate TB education