TABLE 3.

Operational research projects completed during The Union/MSF course and publication status^*

Participant’s country	Title of research project	Name of journal	Publication status
South Africa	Recording delivery of isoniazid preventive treatment to children: operational challenges	Int J Tuberc Lung Dis	Accepted November 2009; published9
Viet Nam	Completeness and consistency in recording information in the tuberculosis case register, Cambodia, China and Viet Nam	Int J Tuberc Lung Dis	Accepted March 2010; published10
Malawi	Early active follow-up of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) who are lost to follow-up: the ‘Back-to-Care’ project in Lilongwe, Malawi	Trop Med Int Health	Accepted April 2010; published11
China	Performance of culture and drug susceptibility testing in pulmonary tuberculosis patients in northern China	Int J Tuberc Lung Dis	Accepted June 2010; published12
India	Tuberculosis ‘retreatment others’: profile and treatment outcomes in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India	Int J Tuberc Lung Dis	Accepted June 2010; published13
Ethiopia	Intensified tuberculosis case finding among people living with the human immunodeficiency virus in a hospital clinic in Ethiopia	Int J Tuberc Lung Dis	Accepted August 2010; published14
Kenya	Loss to follow-up from tuberculosis treatment in an urban informal settlement (Kibera), Nairobi, Kenya: what are the rates and determinants?	Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg	Accepted August 2010; published15
India	Characteristics and programme-defined treatment outcomes among childhood tuberculosis (TB) patients under the national TB Programme in Delhi	PLoS ONE	Accepted September 2010; published16
Bangladesh	Why are tuberculosis patients not treated earlier? A study of informal health practitioners in Bangladesh	Int J Tuberc Lung Dis	Accepted October 2010; published17
South Africa	Identification of losses to follow-up in a community-based antiretroviral therapy clinic in South Africa using a computerized pharmacy tracking system	BMC Infect Diseases	Accepted October 2010; published18
Malawi	Retreatment tuberculosis cases categorised as ‘other’: are they properly managed?	PLoS ONE	Accepted October 2011; published (previously rejected by Int J Tuberc Lung Dis)19
Uganda	Loss to follow up from isoniazid preventive therapy among adults attending HIV voluntary counseling and testing sites in Uganda	Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg	Accepted October 2011; published (previously rejected by Int J Tuberc Lung Dis)20
Viet Nam	Human resource requirements for quality-assured electronic data capture of the TB case register	BMC Res Notes	Accepted January 2012; published (previously rejected by Int J Tuberc Lung Dis)21
Afghanistan	Does task shifting in TB microscopy services to non-certified microscopists affect quality? A cross-sectional study in Afghanistan	Health Policy Plann	Withdrawn from the journal after 9 months—no further progress
Myanmar	Assessment of TB treatment outcomes in HIV-positive TB patients in an integrated HIV care programme in Mandalay, Myanmar	Not submitted to a peer-review journal

^*All research papers were submitted to a journal before April 2010, with the exception of one participant from Myanmar who was unable to submit.

The Union = International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; MSF = Médecins Sans Frontières; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus.