Understanding TB: Technologies, ethics and programmes
Project Progress :
Started Date:December 01 2012 Completed Date:December 31 2015
Understanding TB: Technologies, ethics and programmes
Categories :Qualitative Study
CompletedA three year ethnographic study
Introduction
A three year ethnographic study funded by Wellcome Trust and supported by University of Edinburgh which aims to look at the impact of new diagnostics, the Global Fund and TB/HIV co-infection on TB control in Nepal.
Project Objectives
- Understand introduction of new diagnostics in TB and its impact in the relationship of health workers and with the patients
- Understand the impact of the Global Fund on TB control institutions and their relations more generally in the health development sector
- Generate understanding around problems faced by people with TB/HIV co-infection and how they deal with it –individual and programme level
- Develop individual/institutional capacity for qualitative research
