Active versus passive case finding for tuberculosis in marginalised and vulnerable populations in India: comparison of treatment outcomes

Active versus passive case finding for tuberculosis in marginalised and vulnerable populations in India: comparison of treatment outcomes

Background: Community-based active case finding (ACF) for tuberculosis (TB) implemented among marginalised and vulnerable populations in 285 districts of India resulted in reduction of diagnosis delay and prevalence of catastrophic costs due to TB diagnosis. We were interested to know whether this t...

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Main Authors: Hemant Deepak Shewade, Vivek Gupta, Srinath Satyanarayana, Sunil Kumar, Prabhat Pandey, U. N. Bajpai, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Soundappan Kathirvel, Sripriya Pandurangan, Subrat Mohanty, Vaibhav Haribhau Ghule, Karuna D. Sagili, Banuru Muralidhara Prasad, Priyanka Singh, Kamlesh Singh, Gurukartick Jayaraman, P. Rajeswaran, Moumita Biswas, Gayadhar Mallick, Ali Jafar Naqvi, Ashwin Kumar Bharadwaj, K. Sathiyanarayanan, Aniruddha Pathak, Nisha Mohan, Raghuram Rao, Ajay M. V. Kumar, Sarabjit Singh Chadha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Global Health Action
Subjects:
tuberculosis/therapy
systematic screening
vulnerable populations
treatment outcome
community-based active case finding
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1656451

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1656451

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