Table 1 Summary of TB Active Case Finding (ACF) strategies

Target groups

Neighbourhood and household contacts of TB cases (registered within the last 2 years)

Populations in poor urban settlements, Phnom Penh

Older age (>55 yrs. old) and vulnerable groups

Key activities

• Community health worker visited homes of TB patients registered within last 2 yrs.

• TB-officers and village-health-volunteers performed door to door symptom screening of 315,874 people

• Door to door screening of 68,486 people, focusing on older patients

• 33,029 household contacts and ‘neighbourhood contacts’ screened using CXR

• 12,201 symptomatic patients identified

• 11,995 symptomatic patients referred for testing and provided transport costs if required

• 3632 patients with abnormal CXR had a GeneXpert sputum test

• 10,301 symptomatic patients tested with (LED fluorescence) microscopy

• 11,650 underwent CXR screening

• 1894 patient underwent GeneXpert testing

• 2518 had GeneXpert testing

Operational Districts

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