TB morbidity estimates overlook the contribution of post-TB disability: evidence from urban Malawi

• Knut Lönnroth,
• Jason J Madan,
• Rebecca Nightingale,
• Kevin Mortimer,
• Jamilah Meghji,
• Jeremiah Chakaya,
• Jamie Rylance,
• Ndaziona Peter Banda,
• Eve Worrall,
• Beatrice Chinoko,
• Denise Evans,
• Ewan M Tomeny,
• Georgios F Nikolaidis,
• Lucky Gift Ngwira,
• S. Bertel Squire

Affiliations

Knut Lönnroth

Department of Global Public Health, WHO Collaborating Centre on Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Jason J Madan

University of Warwick Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK

Rebecca Nightingale

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Kevin Mortimer

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Jamilah Meghji

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Jeremiah Chakaya

Kenya Association of Physicians against TB and Lung Diseases (KAPTLD), Nairobi, Kenya

Jamie Rylance

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Ndaziona Peter Banda

Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Eve Worrall

Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Beatrice Chinoko

Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Denise Evans

Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Wits Health Consortium, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa

Ewan M Tomeny

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Georgios F Nikolaidis

EMEA Real World Methods and Evidence Generation, IQVIA, Durham, UK

Lucky Gift Ngwira

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

S. Bertel Squire

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK