No families affected by tuberculosis to face catastrophic costs by 2020: India's new strategic plan to eliminate tuberculosis [0.03%]
印度出台新战略计划：力争2020年不让任何一个结核病家庭因病致贫
Malaisamy Muniyandi,Rajeswari Ramachandran
Malaisamy Muniyandi
Sangeeta Sharma
Sangeeta Sharma
The WHO's End TB Strategy and the United Nations' (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) share the common aim to end the global TB epidemic. Specific targets have been set in the End TB Strategy, for the period 2016-2035, which include a...
Initial experience of bedaquiline implementation under the National TB Programme at NITRD, Delhi, India [0.03%]
贝达喹啉在印度新德里结核病防治所国家结核病规划中的初步实施经验
Rohit Sarin,Neeta Singla,Vikram Vohra et al.
Rohit Sarin et al.
Background: Bedaquiline (BDQ) was approved for treatment of drug resistant TB (DR-TB) under Conditional Access Programme (CAP) of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) and was also implemented in the Nat...
Identifying and mapping TB hot spots in an urban slum by integratingGeographic positioning system and the local postman - A pilot study [0.03%]
结合地理信息系统和邮政员识别并定位大城市贫民窟中的结核病高发现象——一项试点研究
Chitra C Iravatham,Venkata Sanjeev Kumar Neela,Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri
Chitra C Iravatham
Setting: Mahavir DOT Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India INTRODUCTION: Urban slums are characterized by crowding, poverty. In such setting due to lack of infection control the transmission of tuberculosis is known to rise...
Mina Chandra,Proteesh Rana,Kalpana Chandra et al.
Mina Chandra et al.
Introduction: Depression is common in Tuberculosis (TB) and associated with adverse outcomes through pathogenic mechanisms and impaired self-care behaviours including reduced treatment adherence. Undiagnosed depression ca...
N-TB: A mobile-based application to simplify nutritional assessment, counseling and care of patients with tuberculosis in India [0.03%]
基于移动的应用程序N-TB可简化印度结核病患者的营养评估、咨询和护理工作
Anurag Bhargava,Madhavi Bhargava,Tripti Pande et al.
Anurag Bhargava et al.
Undernutrition is the most prevalent comorbidity in patients with tuberculosis (TB) in India. Undernutrition is often severe and results in higher risk of death, drug toxicity during treatment, poor functional status at end of treatment and...
Burden of pulmonary tuberculosis in modern prison: A cross sectional prevalence survey from south India [0.03%]
印度南部一所监狱肺结核流行现状调查：一项横断面流行病学研究
Chandra Kumar Dolla,Baskaran Dhanraj,Muniyandi Malaisamy et al.
Chandra Kumar Dolla et al.
Background: The risk of spread of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) disease depends on several factors. One important factor is the situational and environmental vulnerabilities of the prison setting. Study was conducted in ce...
Early efficacy and safety of Bedaquiline and Delamanid given together in a "Salvage Regimen" for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis [0.03%]
贝达喹啉和德拉马尼联用治疗耐药结核病的早期疗效及安全性
Rohit Sarin,Vikram Vohra,Neeta Singla et al.
Rohit Sarin et al.
Background: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients for whom a WHO recommended regimen along with Bedaquiline (BDQ) cannot be prescribed, Delamanid (DLM) was added along with other drugs to provide a "Salvage Regimen...
V K Arora,K K Chopra
V K Arora
NTP was pilot tested in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh during 1961 and thereafter the programme was launched throughout the country. In 1992, the Government of India together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Swedish Intern...
V K Chadha,P Praseeja
V K Chadha
Community based active case finding (ACF) for tuberculosis (TB) has seen resurrection in the current armamentarium of many TB managers in their fight toward eliminating TB. This article explores the accuracy and approximate cost of various ...