Active Case Finding for Tuberculosis through TOUCH Agents in Selected High TB Burden Wards of Kolkata, India: A Mixed Methods Study on Outcomes and Implementation Challenges

Active Case Finding for Tuberculosis through TOUCH Agents in Selected High TB Burden Wards of Kolkata, India: A Mixed Methods Study on Outcomes and Implementation Challenges

Active case finding (ACF) for tuberculosis (TB) was implemented in 60 selected high TB burden wards of Kolkata, India. Community volunteers called TOUCH (Targeted Outreach for Upliftment of Community Health) agents (TAs) identified and referred presumptive TB patients (PTBPs) to health facilities fo...

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Main Authors: Abhijit Dey, Pruthu Thekkur, Ayan Ghosh, Tanusree Dasgupta, Soumyajyoti Bandopadhyay, Arista Lahiri, Chidananda Sanju S V, Milan K. Dinda, Vivek Sharma, Namita Dimari, Dibyendu Chatterjee, Isita Roy, Anuradha Choudhury, Parthiban Shanmugam, Brojo Kishore Saha, Sanghamitra Ghosh, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-11-01
Series:Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Subjects:
active case findings
tuberculosis
touch agent
high tb burden area
tb surveillance
4s screening
thali project
sort it
operational research
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/4/4/134

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