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title: "Intermediary-facilitated public–private mix increased tuberculosis notifications in Viet Nam"
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# Intermediary-facilitated public–private mix increased tuberculosis notifications in Viet Nam
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- **Published At:** 2026-09-23T14:00:00.000Z
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## Executive GIST (TL;DR)
- This quasi-experimental study evaluated a large-scale intermediary-facilitated **public–private mix (PPM)** intervention for **tuberculosis** across 15 provinces in Viet Nam from 2020–2023, covering about 40.6 million people (≈40% of the population). - The intervention linked 3,154 non-NTP providers to the National Tuberculosis Program through systematic screening, referral, reporting, active case finding, provider incentives, patient support, and integrated data systems. - Researchers used province-level quarterly TB notification data from 2016–2025 and applied a heterogeneity-robust extended two-way fixed-effects framework with Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood models to estimate average treatment effects and dose–response relationships, adjusting for province and quarter fixed effects and COVID-19 disruptions. - The intervention was associated with an average increase of 316.8 additional notifications per province-quarter (95% CI 23.4 to 610.2; p = 0.034). - Dose–response analyses found a 1.4% increase in notifications per 100 verbal assessments per 100,000 population (IRR=1.00014; 95% CI 1.00002–1.00025; p = 0.018), and national models estimated about 3,206 additional notifications annually (95% CI 1,658–4,763; p < 0.001) with intensity-linked increases (IRR=1.00035; 95% CI 1.00018–1.00052; p < 0.001). - Analyses using PPM notifications as the intermediate outcome produced concordant results; interrupted time-series and triangulation across methods supported findings. - Estimated costs per additional notification from a funder perspective ranged from US$166 to US$458. - The primary limitation was non-randomized, purposive selection of high-burden provinces for intervention, which could bias estimates; the authors mitigated this via conservative control selection and multiple analytic approaches. - The authors conclude that intermediary agency models can operationalize **PPM** at scale, are dose-responsive, and offer an affordable, scalable strategy to reduce TB treatment coverage gaps amid constrained global health financing.
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Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing * E-mail: luan.vo@tbhelp.org Affiliations Friends for International TB Relief, Ha Noi, Viet Nam, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5937-6286 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5937-6286 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Thuy Thi Thu Dong, Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Friends for International TB Relief, Ha Noi, Viet Nam ⨯ * Huy Ba Huynh, Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Friends for International TB Relief, Ha Noi, Viet Nam ⨯ * Binh Anh Luong, Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation University of Sydney Vietnam Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam ⨯ * Huong Thi Lan Mo, Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Friends for International TB Relief, Ha Noi, Viet Nam [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0373-1540 ](https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0373-1540 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Andrew James Codlin, Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing Affiliations Friends for International TB Relief, Ha Noi, Viet Nam, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1380-8300 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1380-8300 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Rachel Forse, Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing Affiliations Friends for International TB Relief, Ha Noi, Viet Nam, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0716-3342 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0716-3342 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Thuy Doan To Mai, Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Friends for International TB Relief, Ha Noi, Viet Nam [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4319-9994 ](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4319-9994 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Lan Phuong Nguyen, Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Friends for International TB Relief, Ha Noi, Viet Nam [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5862-9544 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5862-9544 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Jacob Creswell, Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4885-940X ](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4885-940X "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Luong Van Dinh, Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation National Lung Hospital, Ha Noi, Viet Nam ⨯ * Hoa Binh Nguyen, Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation National Lung Hospital, Ha Noi, Viet Nam [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1543-4907 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1543-4907 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Phu Xuan Vu, Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation National Lung Hospital, Ha Noi, Viet Nam ⨯ * Tuan Dinh Nguyen, Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation National Lung Hospital, Ha Noi, Viet Nam [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1007-7692 ](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1007-7692 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Lan Huu Nguyen, Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam ⨯ * Thi Minh Ha Dang, Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam ⨯ * Son Van Luu, Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing Affiliation National Lung Hospital, Ha Noi, Viet Nam ⨯ * Nam Hoang Do, Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing Affiliation National Lung Hospital, Ha Noi, Viet Nam [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8246-4674 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8246-4674 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Huyen Thanh Truong, Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing Affiliation National Lung Hospital, Ha Noi, Viet Nam ⨯ * Phan Do Nguyen, Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing Affiliation National Lung Hospital, Ha Noi, Viet Nam [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3829-2885 ](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3829-2885 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Tushar Garg, Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6781-8574 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6781-8574 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Jad Shedrawy, Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Stockholm, Sweden ⨯ * Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8798-4027 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8798-4027 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Minh Huy Pham, Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation United States Agency for International Development, Ha Noi, Viet Nam [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7703-3544 ](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7703-3544 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Jamie Tonsing, Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6211-2982 ](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6211-2982 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Tom Wingfield, Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliations Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit, Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8433-6887 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8433-6887 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Mohammed Ahmed Yassin, Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9766-2072 ](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9766-2072 "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * Nhung Viet Nguyen , Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and share senior authorship. Affiliation VNU University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ha Noi, Viet Nam [ ![ORCID logo](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/orcid_16x16.png) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-133X ](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-133X "ORCID Registry") ⨯ * [ ... ], * Knut Lönnroth Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and share senior authorship. Affiliation Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden ⨯ * [ view all ] * [ view less ] # Evaluation of the tuberculosis notification impact from an intermediary-facilitated public–private mix intervention in Viet Nam: A population-level quasi-experimental study * Luan Nguyen Quang Vo, * Thuy Thi Thu Dong, * Huy Ba Huynh, * Binh Anh Luong, * Huong Thi Lan Mo, * Andrew James Codlin, * Rachel Forse, … * Thuy Doan To Mai, * Lan Phuong Nguyen, * Jacob Creswell ![PLOS](https://journals.plos.org/resource/img/logo-plos-full-color.svg) x * Published: September 23, 2026 * * [Article](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144) * [Authors](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144) * [Metrics](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/metrics?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144) * [Comments](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144) * [Media Coverage](http://plos.altmetric.com/details/doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144) * [Peer Review](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/peerReview?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144) * [Abstract](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144#abstract0) * [Author summary](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144#abstract1) * [Background](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144#sec004) * [Methods](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144#sec005) * [Results](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144#sec011) * [Discussion](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144#sec019) * [Supporting information](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144#sec021) * [Acknowledgments](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144#ack) * [References](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144#references) * [Reader Comments](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144) * [Figures](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144) ## Abstract ### Background Treatment coverage gaps remain a major barrier to ending tuberculosis (TB). Public–private mix (PPM) entails the engagement of healthcare providers outside of national TB programs (NTP). PPM strategies are promoted to improve TB notification, particularly in high-burden settings with fragmented care systems, and intermediary agencies are recognized as effective mechanisms to operationalize PPM by bridging NTPs and out-of-network healthcare providers. However, population-level evidence is rare, as most evaluations have been limited to pilot studies, small geographic areas, or uncontrolled designs. This study documents the population-level association of a PPM intervention with TB notifications through the use of unbiased analytical methods to account for heterogeneity from the intervention’s staggered deployment and dynamic intensity. ### Methods and findings We present a non-randomized, quasi-experimental evaluation of a large-scale intermediary-facilitated PPM intervention conducted between 2020 and 2023 in 15 provinces of Viet Nam, covering 40.6 million people equivalent to 40% of the population. The intervention engaged 3,154 non-NTP providers in TB care, linking them to the NTP through systematic screening, referral, and reporting mechanisms. The model emphasized active case finding, provider incentives, patient support and integrated data systems to raise notifications as the primary outcome. We analyzed quarterly province-level TB notification data from 2016 to 2025 using a heterogeneity-robust extended two-way fixed-effects framework to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated. The analysis adjusted for province and calendar-quarter fixed effects, and for COVID-19 disruptions. Using Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood fixed-effects models, we estimated dose–response effects and post-intervention patterns and triangulated effects with an interrupted time-series analysis of national notifications and repeated all analyses using the intermediate outcome of PPM notifications. Lastly, we calculated marginal cost per additional notification from a funder perspective. The intervention was associated with 316.8 additional notifications per province-quarter (95% confidence interval [CI] [23.4, 610.2]; _p_ = 0.034). Regarding dose–response effects, we observed a 1.4% increase in notifications per 100 verbal assessments per 100,000 population (incidence rate ratio [IRR]=1.00014; 95% CI [1.00002, 1.00025]; _p_ = 0.018). National models suggested 3,206 (95% CI [1,658, 4,763]; _p_ < 0.001) additional notifications annually with a 3.5% intensity-associated notification increase (IRR = 1.00035; 95% CI [1.00018, 1.00052]; _p_ < 0.001). Using PPM notifications produced concordant results. The costs per additional notification were US$ 166-US$ 458. The main limitation was the non-randomized design, with high-burden provinces purposively selected as intervention areas. This was mitigated through conservative control selection and triangulation across methods. ### Conclusions This study furnishes robust, policy-relevant evidence that intermediary-facilitated PPM implemented at scale in Viet Nam was associated with significant, dose–responsive increases in PPM and TB notifications at provincial and national levels. These findings promote intermediary agency models as an effective mechanism to operationalize PPM at scale and to generate public health benefits in closing TB treatment coverage gaps. In an era of constrained global health financing, leveraging existing provider networks through intermediary-facilitated PPM offers an affordable and scalable strategy to sustain momentum towards ending TB. ## Author summary ### Why was this study done? * Millions of people who develop tuberculosis each year are never reported to national health programs, in part because they seek care from private practices, pharmacies, clinics and hospitals that operate outside the public system. * Bringing these providers into the national response is widely recommended, but there has been little strong evidence on whether it actually works when applied at a population level. ### What did the researchers do and find? * We studied an intervention in Viet Nam that used an intermediary agency to connect private and other non-program providers to Viet Nam’s National Tuberculosis Control Programme across 15 provinces over four years. * Using national records and methods designed to separate the program’s effect from other changes over time, we found that it was associated with a clear and sustained increase in the number of people reported with tuberculosis, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, at a reasonable cost. ### What do these findings mean? * Connecting private providers to national programs through an intermediary agency is an affordable, practical way to find more people with tuberculosis, especially as global health funding becomes more constrained. * The main limitation was the non-randomized selection of the intervention provinces, which may have overstated the number of additional notifications from the intervention. This was mitigated through conservative selection of the control area and use of multiple methods and outcomes to triangulate the results. ## Figures ![Table 2](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.t002) ![Fig 3](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.g003) ![Table 1](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.t001) ![Fig 1](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.g001) ![Fig 2](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.g002) ![Table 2](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.t002) ![Fig 3](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.g003) ![Table 1](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.t001) ![Fig 1](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.g001) ![Fig 2](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure/image?size=inline&id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144.g002) **Citation:** Vo LNQ, Dong TTT, Huynh HB, Luong BA, Mo HTL, Codlin AJ, et al. (2026) Evaluation of the tuberculosis notification impact from an intermediary-facilitated public–private mix intervention in Viet Nam: A population-level quasi-experimental study. PLoS Med 23(9): e1005144. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1005144 **Academic Editor:** Shenglan Tang, Duke University, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA **Received:** May 29, 2026; **Accepted:** August 27, 2026; **Published:** September 23, 2026 **Copyright:** © 2026 Vo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the [Creative Commons Attribution License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestr
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