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Ahmed, F.W. (2018). A Critical Analysis of Bangladesh National Tuberculosis Control Program.

Retrieved from http://www.alliedacademies.org/articles/a-critical-analysis-of-bangladesh-national-tuberculosis-control-program.pdf

This article describes several weaknesses and major challenges of the NTP (The National Tuberculosis Control Program). The program is believed to be an overall success given its many strengths with possible opportunities. Though this program has made progress providing diagnosis, treatment, and controlling of the disease is still a major impediment. This article is useful to my final paper because it broadens my horizon to different programs that are fighting to combat TB.

Nathavitharana, R., Daru, P., Barrera, A.E. (2017). FAST Implementation in Bangladesh: High Frequency of Unsuspected Tuberculosis Justifies Challenges of Scale Up.

Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5757242/

The focus of this article is to present operational data and discuss the challenges of implementing FAST (Find cases Actively, separate safely and Treat effectively) as a TB transmission control strategy. FAST was implemented sequentially at three hospitals. Knowing the challenges that certain programs face is helpful to understand just how hard it is to reach a group of people suffering from this epidemic.

WHO (World Health Organization). (2019). The Philippines Department of Health and WHO call for 'all-out-war' against TB

The main aim of this report is to provide a comprehensive and updated assessment of the TB epidemic, progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, and regional levels. WHO is always a great resource to turn to because it covers a wide range of public health issues throughout the nation.

Vassall, A. (2015). Bangladesh Perspectives: Tuberculosis.

This presentation alerts us on how tuberculosis is plaguing the working people of Bangladesh. It gives us an insight on how many people are affected and the rates of death coming from this frequent disease. There are treatments for TB, but it is hard to diagnose because many people are not aware of the symptoms they experience. It tells us how tricky this situation is, being that TB is treatable, but it can take so long for the treatments to work and people the treated are exposed to may have the disease without knowing; counteracting the treatments.

Islam, Q. S., Islam, M. A., Islam, S., Ahmed, S.M.. Prevention and control of tuberculosis in workplaces: how knowledgeable are the workers in Bangladesh?

This study aimed to fill-in this knowledge gap. A cross-sectional survey was done in multiple workplaces like garment factories, jute mills, bidi/tobacco factories, flour mills, and steel mills using a multi-stage sampling procedure. Data was collected from 4800 workers in face-to-face interview helping to give an insight on how the workers deal with having or being exposed to this disease.