• Title COVID Impact on Private Health Markets (COVET)
  • Granting Agency Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Period 22 September 2020 – 31 December 2023
  • Amount $1,323,642 USD

This project’s purpose was to examine the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on TB services in private healthcare in 3 countries – India, Indonesia and Nigeria.

Publications

Sassi, Angelina; Rosapep, Lauren; Olusola-Faleye, Bolanle; Baruwa, Elaine; Johns, Ben; Kafi, Mohammad Abdullah Heel; Huria, Lavanya; Vasquez, Nathaly Aguilera; Daniels, Benjamin; Das, Jishnu; Anyaike, Chukwuma; Chijioke-Akaniro, Obioma; Pai, Madhukar; Oga-Omenka, Charity

Private sector tuberculosis care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: A repeated cross-sectional standardized patients study of adherence to national TB guidelines in urban Nigeria (Journal Article)

In: BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, pp. e015474, 2024.

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Widarna, Rodiah; Afifah, Nur; Djunaedy, Hanif Ahmad Kautsar; Sassi, Angelina; Vasquez, Nathaly Aguilera; Oga-Omenka, Charity; Salindri, Argita Dyah; Lestari, Bony Wiem; Pai, Madhukar; Alisjahbana, Bachti

The shifting landscape of private healthcare providers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons to strengthen the private sectors engagement for future pandemic and tuberculosis care (Journal Article)

In: PLoS Global Public Health, vol. 4, no. 10, pp. e0003112, 2024.

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Oga-Omenka, Charity; Rosapep, Lauren; Baruwa, Elaine; Huria, Lavanya; Vasquez, Nathaly Aquilera; Faleye, Bolanle Olusola; Kafi, Md Abdullah Heel; Sassi, Angelina; Nwosu, Chimdi; Johns, Benjamin; Adamu, Abdu; Chijioke-Akaniro, Obioma; Anyaike, Chukwuma; Pai, Madhukar

Individual journeys to tuberculosis care in Nigeria’s private sector during the COVID-19 pandemic (Journal Article)

In: BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. e013124, 2024.

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Sassi, Angelina; Lestari, Bony Wiem; Muna, Kuuni Ulfah Naila El; Oga-Omenka, Charity; Afifah, Nur; Widarna, Rodiah; Huria, Lavanya; Vasquez, Nathaly Aguilera; Benedetti, Andrea; Hadisoemarto, Panji Fortuna; Daniels, Benjamin; Das, Jishnu; Pai, Madhukar; Alisjahbana, Bachti

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of tuberculosis care in private facilities in Bandung, Indonesia: a repeated cross-sectional standardized patients study (Journal Article)

In: BMC Public Health, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1–18, 2024.

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Huria, Lavanya; Lestari, Bony Wiem; Saptiningrum, Eka; Fikri, Auliya Ramanda; Oga-Omenka, Charity; Kafi, Mohammad Abdullah Heel; Daniels, Benjamin; Vasquez, Nathaly Aguilera; Sassi, Angelina; Das, Jishnu; Jani, Ira Dewi; Pai, Madhukar; Alisjahbana, Bachti

Care pathways of individuals with tuberculosis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bandung, Indonesia (Journal Article)

In: PLoS Global Public Health, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. e0002251, 2024.

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Oga-Omenka, Charity; Sassi, Angelina; Vasquez, Nathaly Aguilera; Baruwa, Elaine; Rosapep, Lauren; Daniels, Benjamin; Olusola-Faleye, Bolanle; Huria, Lavanya; Adamu, Abdu; Johns, Benjamin; Das, Jishnu; Pai, Madhukar

Tuberculosis service disruptions and adaptations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the private health sector of two urban settings in Nigeria—A mixed methods study (Journal Article)

In: PLoS Global Public Health, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. e0001618, 2023.

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Mannan, Shamim; Oga-Omenka, Charity; ThekkePurakkal, Akhil Soman; Huria, Lavanya; Kalra, Aakshi; Gandhi, Ravdeep; Kapoor, Tunisha; Gunawardena, Nathali; Raj, Shekhar; Kaur, Manjot; Sassi, Angelina; Pande, Tripti; Shibu, Vijayan; Sarin, Sanjay; Chadha, Sarabjit Singh; Heitkamp, Petra; Das, Jishnu; Rao, Raghuram; Pai, Madhukar

Adaptations to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic by private sector tuberculosis care providers in India (Journal Article)

In: Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, vol. 28, pp. 100327, 2022.

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