Tuberculosis Notification: Issues and Challenges
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. An emerging menace in India is drug resistant forms of TB. In order to ensure proper TB diagnosis and case management, reduce TB transmission and address the problems of emergence of spread of Drug Resistant-TB, it is essential to have complete inf...
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Light House Polyclinic Mangalore
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| description | Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. An emerging menace in India is drug resistant forms of TB. In order to ensure proper TB diagnosis and case management, reduce TB transmission and address the problems of emergence of spread of Drug Resistant-TB, it is essential to have complete information of all TB cases. Therefore, Govt. of India declared Tuberculosis a notifiable disease on 7th May 2012. This paper highlights the fact that notification of TB in the absence of regulation of diagnostic practices, rational use of anti-TB medicines and availability of diagnostic and treatment facilities for drug-resistant TB will pose more problems rather than provide solutions to this problem. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5e88cea643bb441fbf1641f875895d202022-12-21T19:10:12ZengLight House Polyclinic MangaloreOnline Journal of Health & Allied Sciences0972-59972013-08-01122Tuberculosis Notification: Issues and ChallengesManisha Nagpal0Naresh Chawla1Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Vallah, AmritsarDistrict TB Officer, AmritsarTuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. An emerging menace in India is drug resistant forms of TB. In order to ensure proper TB diagnosis and case management, reduce TB transmission and address the problems of emergence of spread of Drug Resistant-TB, it is essential to have complete information of all TB cases. Therefore, Govt. of India declared Tuberculosis a notifiable disease on 7th May 2012. This paper highlights the fact that notification of TB in the absence of regulation of diagnostic practices, rational use of anti-TB medicines and availability of diagnostic and treatment facilities for drug-resistant TB will pose more problems rather than provide solutions to this problem.http://www.ojhas.org/issue46/2013-2-13.htmlTuberculosisDrug resistanceNotification |
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| title | Tuberculosis Notification: Issues and Challenges |
| title_full | Tuberculosis Notification: Issues and Challenges |
| title_fullStr | Tuberculosis Notification: Issues and Challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tuberculosis Notification: Issues and Challenges |
| title_short | Tuberculosis Notification: Issues and Challenges |
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| topic | Tuberculosis Drug resistance Notification |
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