A strategic guide for international partners on the powerful system improvement tool that drives accountability, reveals bottlenecks, and informs targeted investments.
Can 7-1-7 help household contacts of tuberculosis patients get started on preventive therapy? In India, sites using the timeliness metric saw an increase in household contacts starting treatment.
Our colleagues assessed whether the 7-1-7”timeliness metric could be implemented in Kenya for screening and tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT), and proposed an adaptation: “3-5-7”.
Can 7-1-7 increase the number of household contacts of tuberculosis patients on preventive therapy? In four contexts, most contacts were notified quickly, but structural barriers kept some from care.