Feasibility, enablers and challenges of using timeliness metrics for household contact tracing and TB preventive therapy in Pakistan

• Bushra Jamil ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bushra Jamil, Divya Nair, Pruthu Thekkur

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Divya Nair ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bushra Jamil, Divya Nair, Pruthu Thekkur

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

  Affiliation Centre for Operational Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France

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• Pruthu Thekkur ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bushra Jamil, Divya Nair, Pruthu Thekkur

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

  Affiliation Centre for Operational Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5257-5074

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• Neelofar Laeeq,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Anum Adil,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Mohammed Khogali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health (IPH), College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS), United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

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• Rony Zachariah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United Nations Children Fund, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, World Health Organization, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Selma Dar Berger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Operational Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France

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• Srinath Satyanarayana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Operational Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France, The Union South-East Asia Office, New Delhi, India

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• Ajay M. V. Kumar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Operational Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France, The Union South-East Asia Office, New Delhi, India, Department of Community Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), University Road, Deralakatte, Mangalore, India

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• Aaron Bochner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Resolve to Save Lives, New York City, New York, United States of America

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• Amanda McClelland,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Resolve to Save Lives, New York City, New York, United States of America

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• Razia Fatima ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adharries@theunion.org (ADH); drraziafatima@gmail.com (RF)

  Affiliation Common Management Unit (TB, HIV/AIDS & Malaria), Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Anthony D. Harries

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adharries@theunion.org (ADH); drraziafatima@gmail.com (RF)

  Affiliations Centre for Operational Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France, Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6113-9741

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