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Results from an active case-finding project on Nias Island, Indonesia |


Background Indonesia has one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) burdens in the world, with over 8% of the global TB cases in 2018. In 2018, 563,879 TB cases were notified, the third-highest in the world after India and China. Nevertheless, Indonesia is also one of the main contributors to the increasing gap in undetected and/or undiagnosed cases in the world (10%). Indonesia’s island geography makes access the healthcare services and health information a challenge, and the relative poverty of the […]

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