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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, T. Wingfield, A. Zwerling, A. Daftary

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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
JournalThe international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Volume28
Issue number11
Early online date1 Nov 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2024

Funding

On behalf of the workshop participants of \u2018Equity and person-centred innovation in the End Tuberculosis policy response: building the agenda to respond to social, structural, ethical and legal aspects of disease\u2019, 20\u201322 November 2023, Brocher Foundation, Geneva. The workshop was funded by the Brocher Foundation Geneva (Switzerland), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Treatment Action Group (USA), and supported in-kind by Maastricht University (Netherlands), York University (Canada), and Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa). Conflicts of interest: none declared. On behalf of the workshop participants of \u2018Equity and person-centred innovation in the End Tuberculosis policy response: building the agenda to respond to social, structural, ethical and legal aspects of disease\u2019, 20\u201322 November 2023, Brocher Foundation, Geneva. The workshop was funded by the Brocher Foundation Geneva (Switzerland), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Treatment Action Group (USA), and supported in-kind by Maastricht University (Netherlands), York University (Canada), and Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa).

Funders
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Treatment Action Group
Universiteit Maastricht
Brocher Foundation, Geneva
Brocher Foundation Geneva
Human Sciences Research Council
York University

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