Lavanya Huria

Dados Biográficos

ID7744812
NOMELavanya Huria
PRENOMESLavanya
SOBRENOMEHuria
ASSINATURAHURIA L
AFILIAÇÕESMcGill University
ORCID0000-0002-7835-0372
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2022
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • A methodological review of patient healthcare-seeking journeys from symptom onset to receipt of care

    Open AccessCharity Oga‐Omenka, Angelina Sassi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: For many diseases, early diagnosis and treatment are more cost-effective, reduce community spread of infectious diseases and result in better patient outcomes. However, healthcare-seeking and diagnoses for several diseases are unnecessarily delayed. For example, in 2022, 3 million and 5.6 million people living with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, respectively, were undiagnosed. Many patients never access appropriate testing, remain undiagn…

  • Individual journeys to tuberculosis care in Nigeria’s private sector during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessCharity Oga‐Omenka, Lauren Rosapep et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Pre-COVID-19, individuals with tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria were often underdiagnosed and untreated. TB services were mostly in the public sector with only 15% of new cases in 2019 reported from the private sector. Reports highlighted challenges in accessing care in the private sector, which accounted for 67% of all initial care-seeking. Our study examined patients' health seeking pathways for TB in Nigeria's private sector and explor…

  • Private sector tuberculosis care quality during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAngelina Sassi, Lauren Rosapep et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Only a third of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Nigeria in 2020 were diagnosed and notified, in part due to low detection and under-reporting from the private health sector. Using a standardised patient (SP) survey approach, we assessed how management of presumptive TB in the private sector aligns with national guidelines and whether this differed from a study conducted before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. 13 SPs presented a presumptive TB case …

  • Care pathways of individuals with tuberculosis before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Bandung, Indonesia

    Open AccessLavanya Huria, Bony Wiem Lestari et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The COVID-19 pandemic is thought to have undone years’ worth of progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). For instance, in Indonesia, a high TB burden country, TB case notifications decreased by 14% and treatment coverage decreased by 47% during COVID-19. We sought to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on TB case detection using two cross-sectional surveys conducted before (2018) and after the onset of the pandemic (2021). These surv…

  • Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on quality of tuberculosis care in private facilities in Bandung, Indonesia

    Open AccessAngelina Sassi, Bony Wiem Lestari et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Results indicate that providers successfully identify tuberculosis in their patients yet do not manage them according to national guidelines. There were no major changes found in quality of tuberculosis care due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As tuberculosis notifications have declined in Indonesia due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there remains an urgent need to increase private provider engagement in Indonesia and improve quality of care

  • 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

    Open AccessCharity Oga‐Omenka, Angelina Sassi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Nigeria has the second largest share of undiagnosed TB cases in the world and a large private health sector estimated to be the point of initial care-seeking for 67% of TB patients. There is evidence that COVID-19 restrictions disrupted private healthcare provision, but insufficient data on how private healthcare provision changed as a result of the pandemic. We conducted qualitative interviews and a survey to assess the impact of the pandemic, a…

  • Engaging pharmacies in tuberculosis control

    Open AccessJacob Bigio, Nathaly Aquilera Vasquez et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Most common reasons for primary care visits in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessJacob Bigio, Emily Lai-Ho MacLean et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    With the Covid-19 pandemic and the introduction of the WHO’s Essential Diagnostics List (EDL), increasing global attention is focused on the crucial role of diagnostics in achieving universal health coverage. To create national EDLs and to aid health system planning, it is vital to understand the most common conditions with which people present at primary care health facilities. We undertook a systematic review of the most common reasons for prim…