Active Case Finding for Tuberculosis in India: A Syntheses of Activities and Outcomes Reported by the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme.

ABSTRACT: India launched a national community-based active TB case finding (ACF) campaign in 2017 as part of the strategic plan of the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP). This review evaluated the outcomes for the components of the ACF campaign against the NTEP's minimum indicators and elicited the challenges faced in implementation. We supplemented data from completed pretested data proformas returned by ACF programme managers from nine states and two union territories (for 2017-2019) and five implementing partner agencies (2013-2020), with summary national data on the state-wise ACF outcomes for 2018-2020 published in annual reports by the NTEP. The data revealed variations in the strategies used to map and screen vulnerable populations and the diagnostic algorithms used across the

SUBMITTER: Burugina Nagaraja S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8705069 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature