Evaluating community knowledge of tuberculosis preventive therapy in rural South Africa
Rural South African community members demonstrated poor TB knowledge. Community members with good knowledge of TB were also aware of TPT. Greater community-level public health education and individual-level counseling efforts are needed to facilitate TPT expansion and implementation.
Authors
- Anthony P. Moll
- Violet Chihota (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9266)
- Jessica L. Davis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2725-1518)
- Salome Charalambous (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7143-1009)
- Roman Shrestha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4340-3101)
- Carlo Foppiano Palacios (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2698-981X)
- Sheela Shenoi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-4344)
- Lucy Chimoyi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0083-8319)
- Tejaswi Kompala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4492-5035)
- Laurie Andrews
Institutions
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- University of Connecticut (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Yale University (US)
- Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (US)
- Philanjalo (ZA)
- Aurum Institute (ZA)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2025-03-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21719-2
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.19