Ifunanya Igbojekwe

Ifunanya Igbojekwe replied to "Defining LTFU" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Dear Rebecca, Your concern about the definition of LTFU is valid because the approach to adherence and retention issues will largely depend on how LTFU is defined. In Nigeria, LTFU is been defined as Patient defaulting up to 3 consecutive months of ARV refill appointment. However, in order to ensure that these patients are not lost we sought to track the patients that are defaulting 1-day after ARV refill appointment. This way, the patients get ...

Ifunanya Igbojekwe replied to "Effectiveness of GPS for following study participants" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Dear Jessica, attn: Chinenye, I have been following up with the discussion "Effectiveness of GPS for following study participants". I must say it is a very interesting one. I have however, wondered the feasibility of this in practical terms. I understand you are conducting a study which you must have gotten patients' consent and ethical clearance for. However, i am of the opinion that the patients are less likely to default since the are aware ...

Ifunanya Igbojekwe replied to "distance between patients_hospitalization & waiting area" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear all, Great comments. More like a refresher training for me. I just want to include and also remind us of what Tariq taught us during the course this year; due to the difficulty of ensuring that the hospital staff adhere to the "low density" TB patients in the ward, he recommended that it may be worth clipping the beds to the floor (and maybe walls as the case may be) to make them immovable. ...

Ifunanya Igbojekwe replied to "Disposal of sputum for home infection control in MDR TB treatment" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear all, Discussions on TB Infection control erupts interesting line of thoughts. I am wondering if and what the role of temperature aerosolization of sputum collected in a container would be when the patients reopens the container for subsequent sputum deposition? Or are they being asked to use fresh containers for each sputum deposition? this question is bearing in mind that in Hot regions, the sputum in the container may be warmed up relative to ...