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Building social equity and person-centred innovation into the end TB response

  • N. Engel
  • , I. Apolosi
  • , A. Bhargava
  • , A. Bhan
  • , C. Celan
  • , A. Mak
  • , J. Chikovore
  • , Y. Chorna
  • , M. M. Claassens
  • , S. Dagron
  • , J. T. Denholm
  • , M. Frick
  • , J. Furin
  • , G. Hoddinott
  • , D. Kashnitsky
  • , K. Kielmann
  • , T. Kunor
  • , D. Lin
  • , A. McDowell
  • , E. M. Mitchell
  • C. Oga-Omenka, P. Samina, S. A. Shikoli, D. S. Silva, R. Stein, J. Stillo, H. M. van der Westhuizen, Tom Wingfield, A. Zwerling, A. Daftary
  • Maastricht University
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • South Africa Department of Health
  • Yenepoya University
  • Sangath
  • Center for Health Policies and Studies (PAS Center)
  • York University Toronto
  • Human Sciences Research Council South Africa
  • University of Namibia
  • University of Geneva
  • Victorian Tuberculosis Program
  • Treatment Action Group
  • Harvard University
  • University of Sydney
  • Stellenbosch University
  • Université Paris Cité
  • Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
  • Queen Margaret University
  • We Are TB
  • Burnet Institute
  • Tulane University
  • University of Waterloo
  • McMaster University
  • Network of TB Champions
  • Pamoja TB Group
  • Wayne State University
  • TB Proof (Cape Town)
  • University of Oxford
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Ottawa
  • Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa

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Abstract

Reducing systemic inequities in testing, access to care, social protection – and in the scientific process – is essential to end TB. Incorporating social science methods and expertise on inequity into the mainstream TB response would help ensure that political commitments to equity move beyond symbolic gestures. We convened a meeting between TB social scientists, people with lived experience, civil society and community members to discuss equity within the global TB response. Here, we propose five means by which a social science lens can strengthen equitable, person-centred responses and reconcile the public health significance of TB with the principles of social justice.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)517-520
Number of pages4
JournalInternational Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Volume28
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2024

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • call to action
  • health equity
  • research agenda
  • social sciences
  • tuberculosis

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