2024/07/10 by Adamu, Shehu Usman, Ojetokun, Matthew Bukola, Adamu, Maryam Bappah
#Assessment Patients #Surveillance #Tuberculosis #treatment
paper · doi:10.60787/tnhj.v24i2.808
Background: Tuberculosis is still one of the major diseases of global health importance. It causes high mortality and morbidity worldwide. A lot of strategies to contain the infection of TB has been initiated among which is Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course (DOTs). Objective: The study aims to investigate the efficiency of DOTs centers in the control of Tuberculosis in Niger State, Nigeria. Methodology: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, multistage sampling technique was to select participating health care facilities of Niger state with DOTs centres. A set of structured pretested questionnaire was used to obtain relevant information on diagnosis distribution, treatment outcome, characteristics of DOTs centers and challenges faced by DOTs center from the study participants. Results: A total of 1633 TB patients were enrolled. 37.2% (608) were female and 62.8% (1025) male. 26 DOTs centers were assessed, out of which 11 were primary, 13 secondary and 2 tertiary health facilities. Based on the result of this study, only 42.3% of DOTS center met the WHO treatment success target, but the overall treatment success rate was 76.0% and cure rate was 78.3% which is still below the WHO target of 85%. Conclusion: There is a need to initiate some strategies that will leads to improvements in the control of tuberculosis in Niger state.