The journey to improve the prevention and management of childhood tuberculosis: the Kenyan experience.

dc.contributor.author	Maleche-Obimbo, E
dc.contributor.author	Wanjau, W
dc.contributor.author	Kathure, I
dc.date.accessioned	2015-11-17T10:57:15Z
dc.date.available	2015-11-17T10:57:15Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.citation	Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2015 Dec;19 Suppl 1:39-42.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26564539
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11295/92563
dc.description.abstract	Child tuberculosis (TB) cases in Kenya, a high TB burden country, constitute more than one tenth of all TB cases. This paper describes Kenya's efforts in the past decade to increase awareness about policy, improve leadership and combat the multiple challenges faced in the diagnosis and management of children presumed to have TB. We describe the increasing advocacy and involvement of paediatricians and the child health sector with the National TB Programme, and the resulting improvement in leadership, policy, child-specific guidelines and training materials, health worker capacity, and the implementation of prevention and cure of child TB.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Nairobi	en_US
dc.title	The journey to improve the prevention and management of childhood tuberculosis: the Kenyan experience.	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.type.material	en_US	en_US