National Institutes of Health Funding for Tuberculosis Comorbidities Is Disproportionate to Their Epidemiologic Impact

National Institutes of Health Funding for Tuberculosis Comorbidities Is Disproportionate to Their Epidemiologic Impact

Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading infectious killer worldwide. We systematically searched the National Institutes of Health Research, Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) website to compare research funding for key TB comorbidities-undernutrition, alcohol use, human immu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2024-01, Vol.11 (1), p.ofad618
Hauptverfasser: Carwile, Madeline, Pan, Susie Jiaxing, Zhang, Victoria, Dauphinais, Madolyn, Cintron, Chelsie, Flynn, David, Tang, Alice M, Sinha, Pranay
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Sprache:eng
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Comorbidity
Health aspects
HIV (Viruses)
Public health
Research institutes
Smoking
Tuberculosis
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Zusammenfassung:Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading infectious killer worldwide. We systematically searched the National Institutes of Health Research, Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) website to compare research funding for key TB comorbidities-undernutrition, alcohol use, human immunodeficiency virus, tobacco use, and diabetes-and found a large mismatch between the population attributable fraction of these risk factors and the funding allocated to them.
ISSN:2328-8957
2328-8957
DOI:10.1093/ofid/ofad618