Amrita Daftary

Biographic Data

ID1724809
NAMEAmrita Daftary
GIVEN NAMESAmrita
FAMILY NAMEDaftary
SIGNATUREDAFTARY A
AFFILIATIONSYork University
ORCID0000-0003-2275-3540
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Tuberculosis in Tibetan refugee settlements in India

    Open AccessNawang Yanga, Michaela Hynie et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    The statelessness and political vulnerability of Tibetans-in-exile in India are crucial drivers of tuberculosis (TB) in this population. The violent and forced displacement of Tibetans from Tibet into India in 1959 led to overcrowded and poorly resourced settlement camps that sparked a micro-epidemic of TB among exiled Tibetans, which persists to this day. This paper focuses on the diversity and precarity in legal status among Tibetans in exile i…

  • Fighting tuberculosis hand in hand

    Open AccessNandini Venkatesan, Lena Faust et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease closely intertwined with stigma, discrimination, and the social determinants of health. Communities of people affected by TB are experts in their care pathways, but the TB field continues to fall short of meaningfully engaging communities in TB research. This is a missed opportunity to improve the quality, relevance, person-centeredness, positive impact, and sustainability of TB research outputs. We ackn…

  • TB stigma in India

    Open AccessMadeline Carwile, Senbagavalli Prakash Babu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    In India, persons with tuberculosis (PWTB) and their households experience significant disease-related stigma. The objective of this narrative review was to conduct a review of existing literature related to the types of stigma experienced by PWTB and their household members, with a focus on the effects of stigma, possible interventions, and gender differences. A literature search was conducted on PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science using key sear…

  • Provider perspectives on empirical antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis-like symptoms in South Africa’s private general practice sector

    Open AccessJeremiah Chikovore, Jody Boffa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    While tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa is commonly treated in the public sector, some clients first seek care in the private sector. Research has demonstrated that private general practitioners (GPs) perform less well than do public sector care providers in TB testing and drug-dispensing practices. We aimed to describe GPs’ decision-making practices related to empiric antibiotic treatment when presented with symptoms that may be related to TB, t…

  • A discourse analysis of social inequities, gender, and stigma in tuberculosis policies of seven countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America

    Open AccessMariana Valdivino, Alethe de Vaulgrenant et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    BACKGROUND: Interventions tackling the social aspects of tuberculosis (TB) are widely suggested, yet we miss insights into how policies incorporate these. The language and framing of policies to address TB can lend important insights into how these social drivers are perceived, problematized, and responded to. OBJECTIVE: To understand how discourses in current TB policies frame social dimensions of TB, especially concepts of social inequity, gend…

  • Post-arrival HIV acquisition patterns

    Open AccessWangari Tharao, Thabani Nyoni et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2025References: 19

  • Community health workers and Covid-19

    Open AccessSolomon Salve, Judith Raven et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Community health workers (CHWs) are a key part of the health workforce, with particular importance for reaching the most marginalised. CHWs’ contributions during pandemics have received growing attention, including for COVID-19. This paper contributes to learning about CHWs’ experiences during COVID-19, based on evidence from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Kenya and Ethiopia. The paper synthesises evidence from a set of research proje…

  • Use of standardised patients to assess tuberculosis case management by private pharmacies in Patna, India

    Open AccessAnita Svadzian, Sebastian D Huber et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    As the first point of care for many healthcare seekers, private pharmacies play an important role in tuberculosis (TB) care. However, previous studies in India have showed that private pharmacies commonly dispense symptomatic treatments and broad-spectrum antibiotics over-the-counter (OTC), rather than referring patients for TB testing. Such inappropriate management by pharmacies can delaye TB diagnosis. We assessed medical advice and OTC drug di…

  • Transforming the language used in tuberculosis care

    Open AccessBeauty Umana, Jessica Vorstermans et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

  • Disclosure of HIV-serodiscordant relationships and association with viral suppression

    Open AccessJoshua B Mendelsohn, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2023

    BACKGROUND: Little is known about the effects of disclosure of HIV-serodiscordant relationships on clinical outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the effect of relationship disclosure on HIV viral suppression, and hypothesized that disclosure by HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners would be associated with viral suppression in the HIV-positive partner. METHODS: We conducted a Canadian national online and telephone-administered survey of HIV-positive a…

  • One-by-One, TB Took Everything Away From Me”

    Open AccessTahiya Mahbub, T N Mathur et al.ARTICLEAffilia2023References: 9

    Stigma related to drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), one of the world's most severe infectious diseases, is a major barrier to TB elimination particularly for women living in settings of gender inequity. Drawing on the participatory action research (PAR) framework of photovoice, we explored lived experiences of DR-TB stigma among nine affected women in Mumbai, India. Consenting women took, shared, and contributed to the critical interpretation …

  • Artificial intelligence-based computer aided detection (AI-CAD) in the fight against tuberculosis

    Open AccessJulien Onno, F A Khan et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Cited by: 2References: 45

  • Prescribing practices for presumptive TB among private general practitioners in South Africa

    Open AccessAngela Salomon, Jody Boffa et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Medicine prescribing practices are integral to quality of care for leading infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). We describe prescribing practices in South Africa's private health sector, where an estimated third of people with TB symptoms first seek care. METHODS: Sixteen standardised patients (SPs) presented one of three cases during unannounced visits to private general practitioners (GPs) in Durban and Cape Town: TB sym…

  • User perspectives and preferences on a novel TB LAM diagnostic (Fujifilm Silvamp TB LAM)–a qualitative study in Malawi and Zambia

    Open AccessYannis Herrmann, Federica Lainati et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Widely available tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics use sputum samples. However, many patients, particularly children and patients living with HIV (PLHIV), struggle to provide sputum. Urine diagnostics are a promising approach to circumvent this challenge while delivering reliable and timely diagnosis. This qualitative study in two high TB/HIV burden countries assesses values and preferences of end-users, along with potential barriers for the implemen…

  • Social capital and HIV-serodiscordance

    Open AccessJames Iveniuk, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    As people living with HIV are living longer lives, they have a correspondingly greater opportunity to enjoy long-term romantic and sexual partnerships, including with persons who do not live with HIV ("serodiscordant" relationships). In these dyads, asymmetries may emerge in access to social resources between partners. In this paper we examined how serodiscordant couples access informal (interpersonal, such as family and friends) and formal (prac…

  • A national recruitment strategy for HIV-serodiscordant partners living in Canada for the Positive Plus One study

    Open AccessMin Xi, Sandra Bullock et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Our findings provide important new information on and support the use of a multi-pronged approach to recruit HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals involved in HIV-serodiscordant relationships in Canada. More creative strategies are needed to help index partners recruit their partner in relationships with lower satisfaction and shorter duration and further minimize the risk of "happy couple" bias

  • Dual pharmaceutical citizenship

    Open AccessMolly Ryan, Joshua B Mendelsohn et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Cited by: 1References: 19

  • Using the Covid-19 pandemic to reimagine global health teaching in high-income countries

    Open AccessSalla Atkins, Ananya Banerjee et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

  • Quality of care for tuberculosis and HIV in the private health sector

    Open AccessJody Boffa, Sizulu Moyo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: South Africa has high burdens of tuberculosis (TB) and TB-HIV, yet the quality of patient care in the private sector is unknown. We describe quality of TB and TB-HIV care among private general practitioners (GPs) in two South African cities using standardised patients (SPs). METHODS: Sixteen SPs presented one of three cases during unannounced visits to private GPs in selected high-TB burden communities in Durban and Cape Town: case 1,…

  • Missing men with tuberculosis

    Open AccessJeremiah Chikovore, Madhukar Pai et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Tuberculosis (TB) is treatable but is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide, with men over-represented in some key aspects of the disease burden. Men’s TB epidemiological scenario occurs within a wider public health and historical context, including their prior sidelining in health discussions. Differences are however noticeable in how some Western countries and high TB and HIV burden low and middle-income countries (LMIC) including in …

  • Antibiotic overuse in the primary health care setting

    Open AccessGiorgia Sulis, Benjamin Daniels et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Determining whether antibiotic prescriptions are inappropriate requires knowledge of patients' underlying conditions. In low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where misdiagnoses are frequent, this is challenging. Additionally, such details are often unavailable for prescription audits. Recent studies using standardised patients (SPs) offer a unique opportunity to generate unbiased prevalence estimates of antibiotic overuse…

  • Disrupting a cycle of mistrust

    Open AccessStephanie Law, Amrita Daftary et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Cited by: 5References: 32

  • The START Study to evaluate the effectiveness of a combination intervention package to enhance antiretroviral therapy uptake and retention during TB treatment among TB/HIV patients in Lesotho

    Open AccessAndrea A Howard, Yael Hirsch-Moverman et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: Initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) early during tuberculosis (TB) treatment increases survival; however, implementation is suboptimal. Implementation science studies are needed to identify interventions to address this evidence-to-program gap. OBJECTIVE: The Start TB Patients on ART and Retain on Treatment (START) Study is a mixed-methods, cluster-randomized trial aimed at evaluating the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and acc…

  • A Qualitative Evaluation of the Acceptability of an Interactive Voice Response System to Enhance Adherence to Isoniazid Preventive Therapy Among People Living with HIV in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAmrita Daftary, Yael Hirsch‐Moverman et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2016

    Interactive voice response (IVR) is increasingly used to monitor and promote medication adherence. In 2014, we evaluated patient acceptability toward IVR as part of the ENRICH Study, aimed to enhance adherence to isoniazid preventive therapy for tuberculosis prevention among HIV-positive adults in Ethiopia. Qualitative interviews were completed with 30 participants exposed to 2867 IVR calls, of which 24 % were completely answered. Individualized …

  • Preferential adherence to antiretroviral therapy over tuberculosis treatment

    Open AccessAmrita Daftary, Nesri Padayatchi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2014

    Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and second-line antituberculosis medications is essential to achieve successful outcomes among individuals co-infected with HIV and multi or extensively drug-resistant TB (M/XDR-TB). In 2012-2013, we designed a qualitative study to explore barriers to adherence in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. We conducted six focus groups comprising 23 adults receiving treatment for either MDR-TB (n = 2) or XDR-TB (n = 21…