Clinical Trial: SCAF-TB - Saving Children and Their Families From Tuberculosis: Implementation Research to Improve TB Preventive Treatment Initiation and Completion Rates Among Contact Persons in Tajikistan and Tanzania

U.S., July 21 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07714707) titled 'SCAF-TB - Saving Children and Their Families From Tuberculosis: Implementation Research to Improve TB Preventive Treatment Initiation and Completion Rates Among Contact Persons in Tajikistan and Tanzania' on Jan. 13.

Brief Summary: The SCAF-TB study aims to evaluate how the WHO-endorsed SIILTIBCY skin test can be best implemented to test close contacts for tuberculosis infection (TBI) in Tajikistan and Tanzania, either facility-based or home-based delivered by community health workers (CHWs) with or without AI-facilitated diagnostic tools.

The overall goal of this study is to improve access to innovative tuberculosis (TB) preventiv...