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PUBLIC HEALTH ACTION
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 15-18Publisher
INT UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS LUNG DISEASE (I U A T L D)
DOI: 10.5588/pha.15.0035
Keywords
tuberculosis; active case finding; India; project Axshya
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- Canadian Thoracic Society (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
- Centre for Operational Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France
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In India, to increase tuberculosis (TB) case detection under the National Tuberculosis Programme, active case finding (ACF) was implemented by the Global Fund-supported Project Axshya, among high-risk groups in 300 districts. Between April 2013 and December 2014, 4.9 million households covering similar to 20 million people were visited. Of 350 047 presumptive pulmonary TB cases (cough of. 2 weeks) identified, 187 586 (54%) underwent sputum smear examination and 14 447 (8%) were found to be smear-positive. ACF resulted in the detection of a large number of persons with presumptive pulmonary TB and smear-positive TB. Ensuring sputum examination of all those with presumptive TB was a major challenge.
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