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A clinical scoring system to prioritise investigation for tuberculosis among adults attending HIV clinics in South Africa

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A cluster randomised trial to evaluate the effect of optimising TB/HIV integration on patient level outcomes: the "merge" trial protocol.

scientific article published on 12 October 2014

A simplified cost-effectiveness model to guide decision-making for shortened anti-tuberculosis treatment regimens.

scientific article published on February 2016

An intervention to optimise the delivery of integrated tuberculosis and HIV services at primary care clinics: results of the MERGE cluster randomised trial

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Application of provincial data in mathematical modelling to inform sub-national tuberculosis program decision-making in South Africa

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Bottom-up or top-down: unit cost estimation of tuberculosis diagnostic tests in India.

scientific article published on April 2017

Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Catastrophic costs potentially averted by tuberculosis control in India and South Africa: a modelling study

scientific article published on November 2017

Community mobilisation and empowerment interventions as part of HIV prevention for female sex workers in Southern India: a cost-effectiveness analysis

scientific article published on 21 October 2014

Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of a Demand Creation Intervention to Increase Uptake of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Tanzania: Spending More to Spend Less.

scientific article published in July 2018

Cost and cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis treatment shortening: a model-based analysis

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Cost of point-of-care lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan antigen testing in HIV-positive adults in South Africa

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds in Global Health: Taking a Multisectoral Perspective

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Cost-effectiveness analysis of introduction of rapid, alternative methods to identify multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in middle-income countries

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Cost-effectiveness and resource implications of aggressive action on tuberculosis in China, India, and South Africa: a combined analysis of nine models

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Cost-effectiveness of HIV prevention for high-risk groups at scale: an economic evaluation of the Avahan programme in south India

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Cost-effectiveness of Xpert MTB/RIF for tuberculosis diagnosis in South Africa: a real-world cost analysis and economic evaluation.

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Cost-effectiveness of different treatment strategies for tuberculosis in Egypt and Syria.

scientific article published on December 2002

Costs and efficiency of integrating HIV/AIDS services with other health services: a systematic review of evidence and experience.

scientific article published on 08 December 2011

Costs to Health Services and the Patient of Treating Tuberculosis: A Systematic Literature Review.

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Developing the Global Health Cost Consortium Unit Cost Study Repository for HIV and TB: methodology and lessons learned

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Does integration of HIV and SRH services achieve economies of scale and scope in practice? A cost function analysis of the Integra Initiative

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Does integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services improve technical efficiency in Kenya and Swaziland? An application of a two-stage semi parametric approach incorporating quality measures

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Empirical estimation of resource constraints for use in model-based economic evaluation: an example of TB services in South Africa

article published in 2018

Estimating the Impact of Tuberculosis Case Detection in Constrained Health Systems: An Example of Case-Finding in South Africa.

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Estimating the resource needs of scaling-up HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review for national policy makers and planners

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Estimating unbiased economies of scale of HIV prevention projects: a case study of Avahan.

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Evaluating the effect of innovative motivation and supervision approaches on community health worker performance and retention in Uganda and Mozambique: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 12 April 2015

Evaluation of a medication monitor-based treatment strategy for drug-sensitive tuberculosis patients in China: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

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Evaluation of a point-of-care tuberculosis test-and-treat algorithm on early mortality in people with HIV accessing antiretroviral therapy (TB Fast Track study): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

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Evidence-informed policy making at country level: lessons learned from the South African Tuberculosis Think Tank.

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Exploring the epidemiological impact of universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnosis using agent-based simulation

scientific article published in December 2017

Feasibility of achieving the 2025 WHO global tuberculosis targets in South Africa, China, and India: a combined analysis of 11 mathematical models.

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Feasibility, yield, and cost of active tuberculosis case finding linked to a mobile HIV service in Cape Town, South Africa: a cross-sectional study

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Financing essential HIV services: a new economic agenda

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Financing structural interventions: going beyond HIV-only value for money assessments

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Financing the HIV response in sub-Saharan Africa from domestic sources: Moving beyond a normative approach.

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

Financing tuberculosis control: promising trends and remaining challenges

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Foreword: Health Economic Evaluations in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Methodological Issues and Challenges for Priority Setting

scientific article published on February 2016

Health care seeking behaviour for tuberculosis symptoms in Kiev City, Ukraine.

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Higher cost of implementing Xpert(®) MTB/RIF in Ugandan peripheral settings: implications for cost-effectiveness.

scientific article published on September 2016

How can mathematical models advance tuberculosis control in high HIV prevalence settings?

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How can we evaluate the cost-effectiveness of health system strengthening? A typology and illustrations

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Impact and cost-effectiveness of current and future tuberculosis diagnostics: the contribution of modelling

scientific article published on September 2014

Impact and cost-effectiveness of new tuberculosis vaccines in low- and middle-income countries

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Impact of integration of sexual and reproductive health services on consultation duration times: results from the Integra Initiative

scientific article published in November 2017

Impact of reduced hospitalisation on the cost of treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa.

scientific article published on February 2015

Incorporating Demand and Supply Constraints into Economic Evaluations in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Innovation in Evaluating the Impact of Integrated Service-Delivery: The Integra Indexes of HIV and Reproductive Health Integration

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Innovative financing for HIV response in sub-Saharan Africa

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Integrating economic and health evidence to inform Covid-19 policy in low- and middle- income countries

scientific article published on 25 July 2022

Integrating economic and health evidence to inform Covid-19 policy in low- and middle- income countries

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Is Development Assistance for Health fungible? Findings from a mixed methods case study in Tanzania

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Is there scope for cost savings and efficiency gains in HIV services? A systematic review of the evidence from low- and middle-income countries

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Measuring income for catastrophic cost estimates: Limitations and policy implications of current approaches

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Methodological Issues to Consider When Collecting Data to Estimate Poverty Impact in Economic Evaluations in Low-income and Middle-income Countries

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Modeling of novel diagnostic strategies for active tuberculosis - a systematic review: current practices and recommendations.

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Modelling approaches for tuberculosis: are they realistic? - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 March 2017

Numbers, systems, people: how interactions influence integration. Insights from case studies of HIV and reproductive health services delivery in Kenya

scientific article published in November 2017

Optimal allocation of resources in female sex worker targeted HIV prevention interventions: model insights from Avahan in South India.

scientific article published in October 2014

Optimal control of hepatitis C antiviral treatment programme delivery for prevention amongst a population of injecting drug users

scientific article published in 2011

Optimal triage test characteristics to improve the cost-effectiveness of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for TB diagnosis: a decision analysis

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Optimising the cost and delivery of HIV counselling and testing services in Kenya and Swaziland.

scientific article published on 2 August 2012

Patient costs incurred by people living with HIV/AIDS prior to ART initiation in primary healthcare facilities in Gauteng, South Africa

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Patient costs of accessing collaborative tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus interventions in Ethiopia.

scientific article published on May 2010

Patients' costs associated with seeking and accessing treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

scientific article published in December 2015

Paying girls to stay in school: a good return on HIV investment?

scientific article published in June 2012

Positive impact of a large-scale HIV prevention programme among female sex workers and clients in South India

scientific article published on June 2013

Rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis with the Xpert MTB/RIF assay in high burden countries: a cost-effectiveness analysis

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Reforming tuberculosis control in Ukraine: results of pilot projects and implications for the national scale-up of DOTS.

scientific article published on 4 December 2008

Scaling-up the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for the detection of tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in India: An economic analysis

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Secondary schooling might be as good an HIV investment as male circumcision

scientific article published in October 2015

Shortened first-line TB treatment in Brazil: potential cost savings for patients and health services

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Study protocol for the Integra Initiative to assess the benefits and costs of integrating sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Kenya and Swaziland

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The Costs of Delivering Integrated HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health Services in Limited Resource Settings.

scientific article published on May 2015

The Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of a Four-Month Regimen for First-Line Treatment of Active Tuberculosis in South Africa.

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

The cost and cost-effectiveness of gender-responsive interventions for HIV: a systematic review

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The cost and impact of scaling up pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: a systematic review of cost-effectiveness modelling studies

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The costs of HIV prevention for different target populations in Mumbai, Thane and Bangalore

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

The costs of scaling up HIV prevention for high risk groups: lessons learned from the Avahan Programme in India

scientific article published on 9 September 2014

The determinants of technical efficiency of a large scale HIV prevention project: application of the DEA double bootstrap using panel data from the Indian Avahan

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The economic burden of TB diagnosis and treatment in South Africa

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

The growing burden of non-communicable disease among persons living with HIV in Zimbabwe.

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

The health system burden of chronic disease care: an estimation of provider costs of selected chronic diseases in Uganda

scientific article published on 06 March 2015

The impact of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on health systems and household resources in Africa and South Asia

scientific article published on 09 May 2020

The impact of HIV/SRH service integration on workload: analysis from the Integra Initiative in two African settings

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The patient costs of care for those with TB and HIV: a cross-sectional study from South Africa.

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Tracking aid flows for development assistance for health

scientific article published on 13 February 2014

Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy

Tuberculosis control in crisis: economic honesty and comparative effectiveness

scientific article published on 01 August 2012

Tuberculosis retreatment 'others' in comparison with classical retreatment cases; a retrospective cohort review

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Use of HIV counseling and testing and family planning services among postpartum women in Kenya: a multicentre, non-randomised trial

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Using Top-down and Bottom-up Costing Approaches in LMICs: The Case for Using Both to Assess the Incremental Costs of New Technologies at Scale

scientific article published on 14 January 2016

Valuing the work of unpaid community health workers and exploring the incentives to volunteering in rural Africa

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Variation in the quality and out-of-pocket cost of treatment for childhood malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia: Community and facility based care in rural Uganda

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

What Determines HIV Prevention Costs at Scale? Evidence from the Avahan Programme in India

scientific article published on 14 January 2016

What will it take to eliminate drug-resistant tuberculosis?

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

When an emerging disease becomes endemic

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Xpert MTB/RIF for diagnosis of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis: a cost and affordability analysis

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Xpert MTB/RIF versus sputum microscopy as the initial diagnostic test for tuberculosis: a cluster-randomised trial embedded in South African roll-out of Xpert MTB/RIF.

scientific article published on August 2015

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