Strategies to resolve the gap in adolescent tuberculosis care at four health facilities in Uganda: The teenager’s TB pilot project

Samson Omongot; Winters Muttamba; Irene Najjingo; Joseph Baruch Baluku; Sabrina Kitaka; Stavia Turyahabwe; Bruce Kirenga

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0286894

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Strategies to resolve the gap in adolescent tuberculosis care at four health facilities in Uganda: The teenager’s TB pilot project

Samson Omongot ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: somongot@gmail.com

Affiliations Makerere University Lung Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8396-9671

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Winters Muttamba,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Makerere University Lung Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infection and Global Health, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom
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Irene Najjingo,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Makerere University Lung Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1583-1873

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Joseph Baruch Baluku,

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Makerere University Lung Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Pulmonology, Kiruddu National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
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Sabrina Kitaka,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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Stavia Turyahabwe,

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis and leprosy Programme, Ministry of Health (MOH), Kampala, Uganda
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Bruce Kirenga

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Makerere University Lung Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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Strategies to resolve the gap in adolescent tuberculosis care at four health facilities in Uganda: The teenager’s TB pilot project

Samson Omongot,
Winters Muttamba,
Irene Najjingo,
Joseph Baruch Baluku,
Sabrina Kitaka,
Stavia Turyahabwe,
Bruce Kirenga

Published: April 11, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286894
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