Drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai, India: An agenda for operations research.

ABSTRACT: Operations research (OR) is well established in India and is also a prominent feature of the global and local agendas for tuberculosis (TB) control. India accounts for a quarter of the global burden of TB and of new cases. Multidrug-resistant TB is a significant problem in Mumbai, India's most populous city, and there have been recent reports of totally resistant TB. Much thought has been given to the role of OR in addressing programmatic challenges, by both international partnerships and India's Revised National TB Control Programme. We attempt to summarize the major challenges to TB control in Mumbai, with an emphasis on drug resistance. Specific challenges include diagnosis of TB and defining cure, detecting drug resistant TB, multiple sources of health care in the private, public and i

SUBMITTER: Mistry N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3836418 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature