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Authors
Donkeng-Donfack, Valerie Flore https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1643-4909
Tchatchueng-Mbougua, Jules Brice
Abanda, Ngu Njei
Ongboulal, Suzanne Magloire
Djieugoue, Yvonne Josiane
Kamdem Simo, Yannick
Mekemnang Tchoupa, Micheline
Bekang Angui, Frédéric
Kuate Kuate, Albert
Mbassa, Vincent
Mvondo Abeng Belinga, Edwige
Eyangoh, Sara
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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Article History
Received: 2 May 2021
Accepted: 15 February 2022
First Online: 4 March 2022
Declarations
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: Mass screening of TB at prisons and refugee camps by the National Tuberculosis Control Program in Cameroon is supported and approved by the Ministry of Public Health and Ministry of Justice, Department of Prisons Administration. The letters numbers 102/L/DRAPC/SSSP/BPS/2020 and 246/NS/MINSANTE/SG/DLMEP/CNLT/DRSPC/GTR-TB-CE are approval letters from the Ministry of Justice, Department of Prisons Administration that authorize prison campaigns and the Ministry of Public Health through the National Tuberculosis Control Program in Cameroun, respectively for the Centre Region. A verbal informed consent was obtained from all participants. The ethics committee approved this procedure because the mass screening campaign had become a routine TB diagnostic procedures for prisons in order to help in detection of pulmonary TB cases missed by the other active screening methods. This study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. The database used in this study was pseudonymized before being used and all precautions were taken to avoid any risk of patient identification”.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
