A decline in tuberculosis diagnosis, treatment initiation and success during the COVID-19 pandemic, using routine health data in Cape Town, South Africa

• Karen Jennings,

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

  Affiliations City of Cape Town Health Department, Specialised Health, HIV/STI/TB Unit, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Martina Lembani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6831-4220

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• Anneke C. Hesseling,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Nyameka Mbula,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health and Wellness, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Erika Mohr-Holland,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation City of Cape Town Health Department, Specialised Health, Epidemiology Unit, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Vanessa Mudaly,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health and Wellness, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4235-230X

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• Mariette Smith,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health and Wellness, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Public Health and Facility Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Muhammad Osman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Human Sciences, Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

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• Sue-Ann Meehan

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

  * E-mail: sueannm@sun.ac.za

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0826-1833

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