Razia Fatima

Biographic Data

ID7015824
NAMERazia Fatima
GIVEN NAMESRazia
FAMILY NAMEFatima
SIGNATUREFATIMA R
AFFILIATIONSMinistry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination
ORCID0000-0002-2340-6121
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Subnational tuberculosis burden estimation for Pakistan

    Open AccessAlvaro Schwalb, Zia Samad et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Global tuberculosis (TB) burden estimates are aggregated at the national level, despite the likelihood of uneven distribution across and within regions in the same country. Subnational estimates are crucial to producing informed policies and informing budget allocation at more granular levels. In collaboration with the National TB Programme (NTP), we applied a simple and transparent tool to estimate the subnational TB burden in Pakistan. We tailo…

  • Geographic accessibility to childhood tuberculosis care in Pakistan

    Open AccessAashifa Yaqoob, Muhammad Rizwan Alvi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) in children is difficult to detect and often needs specialists to diagnose; the health system is supposed to refer to higher level of health care when diagnosis is not settled in a sick child. In Pakistan, the primary health care level can usually not diagnose childhood TB and will refer to a paediatricians working at a secondary or tertiary care hospital. We aimed to determine the health services access to child TB …

  • Public–Private Mix Models of Tuberculosis Care in Pakistan

    Open AccessWaseem Ullah, Ahmad Wali et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Introduction: Pakistan ranks fifth in the globally estimated burden of tuberculosis (TB) case incidence. Annually, a gap of 241,688 patients with TB exists between estimated TB incidence and actual TB case notification in Pakistan. These undetected/missed TB cases initiate TB care from providers in the private healthcare system who are less motivated to notify patients to the national database that leads to significant underdetection of actual TB…

  • How do private practitioners in Pakistan manage children suspected having tuberculosis? A cross sectional study

    Open AccessAashifa Yaqoob, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    This study showed that many private providers referred children suspected having TB to laboratories for further diagnosis, but the cases identified in these investigations were often not notified to the NTP. This problem could be resolved by strengthening the referral linkages between private health providers, NTP laboratories and treatment centres through capacity building and training of their staff

  • Building sustainable operational research capacity in Pakistan

    Open AccessRazia Fatima, Aashifa Yaqoob et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Background: For many years, operational research capacity has been a challenge and has remained a low priority for the health sector in Pakistan. Building research capacity for developing a critical mass of researchers in Pakistan was done through Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) courses in Paris and Asia between 2010 and 2016.Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe the journey of SORT-IT in Pakistan from …

  • Prevalence of tuberculosis, HIV/Aids, and hepatitis; in a prison of Balochistan

    Open AccessAhmad Wali, Dawood Khan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    The high frequency of infectious diseases in prison is alarming. For limiting the transmission of infections among prison and community, immediate steps are needed to be taken for improvement of prisons condition by application of recommended screening protocols at the time of the first entry of prisoners in prisons