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An agent-based modelling approach to investigate the impact of gender on tuberculosis transmission in Uganda (with 4 co-authors)

Kit Yates · 14 Jan 2026 · arxiv.org

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Equalizing how tuberculosis develops in men and women inside a computer model of people in Kampala reduces both the male-to-female case gap and the total number of cases. That finding highlights how differences in disease course itself shape the higher male burden and overall spread. It reports results from adapting an earlier epidemic simulation to tuberculosis and testing scenarios that remove gender differences in progression.

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  1. The main reasons for males suffering from a higher burden of global TB cases, compared to females, may be in large part due to population-scale factors, such as employment type, the quantity and type of social contacts they make, and their health-seeking behaviours (e.g. differences in diagnostic and treatment delays between genders).