Key message: Eliminating undernutrition could prevent millions of people from developing TB. Scaling up nutritional interventions (which are likely to have myriad social and health benefits), particularly for
populations in greatest need, should be an integral part of the global TB response.
⚕️ A recent @tb-lshtm.bsky.social modelling study found that 134 million people were living with a recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Centre member @aschwalbc.bsky.social wrote about these findings & their implications
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So...what would happen to the global TB epidemic if we "eliminated" undernutrition? Our paper out now @lancetgh.bsky.social, where we combined estimates from our review (doi.org/10.1093/ije/...) with population-specific BMI distributions to find out...(www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
CHDS’ Allison Portnoy (@aportnoy.bsky.social), Nick Menzies, and collaborators examined how the dismantling of the USAID and potential reductions in support from the Global Fund could affect the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries. shorturl.at/7f4Qa
We estimated that eliminating moderate/severe undernutrition (BMI<17) would avert ~15% of global adult incidence, while eliminating all undernutrition (BMI<18.5) would avert ~24%, 2.5 times higher than current estimates.