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Table 1 Active case finding strategies

From: Improving active case finding for tuberculosis in South Africa: informing innovative implementation approaches in the context of the Kharitode trial through formative research

Clinic

Household

Incentives

The clinic strategy would include screening everyone coming into primary care clinics for tuberculosis (TB) symptoms, and if they have one or more, testing them for TB

The household strategy would involve sending healthcare workers to the homes of new TB cases and testing everyone in the household for TB

The incentive strategy would involve giving new TB cases coupons to give to their friends, family and people who they spend time with whom they think could have TB; the TB case and the referred contact would both receive some form of an incentive if that person came to the clinic to be checked for TB