What would it cost to scale-up private sector engagement efforts for tuberculosis care? Evidence from three pilot programs in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Private providers dominate health care in India and provide most tuberculosis (TB) care. Yet efforts to engage private providers were viewed as unsustainably expensive. Three private provider engagement pilots were implemented in Patna, Mumbai and Mehsana in 2014 based on the recommendations in the National Strategic Plan for TB Control, 2012-17. These pilots sought to improve diagnosis and treatment of TB and increase case notifications by offering free drugs and diagnostics for patients who sought care among private providers, and monetary incentives for providers in one of the pilots. As these pilots demonstrated much higher levels of effectiveness than previously documented, we sought to understand program implementation costs and predict costs for their national sca

SUBMITTER: Deo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6550378 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature