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Enhancing the role of private practitioners in tuberculosis prevention and care activities in India.
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- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of tuberculosis care in private facilities in Bandung, Indonesia: a repeated cross-sectional standardized patients study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Exploring private sector perspectives on barriers and facilitators in availing tuberculosis care cascade services: a qualitative study from the Indian state.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Implementation of a tuberculosis elimination project, India 2018-2019.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2023Article
- Acceptability and feasibility of a mobile health application for enhancing public private mix for TB care among healthcare Workers in Southwestern Uganda.BMC digital health · 2023Article
- Tuberculosis care quality in urban Nigeria: A cross-sectional study of adherence to screening and treatment initiation guidelines in multi-cadre networks of private health service providers.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Barriers and Motivators of private hospitals' engagement in Tuberculosis care in Uganda.Global implementation research and applications · 2021Article
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- A review of mobile health interventions for public private mix in tuberculosis care.Internet interventions · 2021Review
- Engaging Informal Private Health Care Providers for TB Case Detection: Experiences from RIPEND Project in India.Tuberculosis research and treatment · 2021Article
- How much do Indians pay for tuberculosis treatment? A cost analysis.Public health action · 2020Article
- Enhanced Private Sector Engagement for Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Reporting through an Intermediary Agency in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2020Article
- Performance of revised national tuberculosis control program in Bihar: A situational analysis.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2020Article
- Cash transfer scheme for people with tuberculosis treated by the National TB Programme in Western India: a mixed methods study.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Tuberculosis patients not covered by treatment in public health services: findings from India's National Family Health Survey 2015-16.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2018Article
- Ending tuberculosis in India: A political challenge & an opportunity.The Indian journal of medical research · 2018Article
- Knowledge of Private Practitioners Regarding Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program- A Cross-Sectional Study from the Haryana state of India.Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical AssociationArticle
- Determination of Direct and Indirect Costs Incurred by Tuberculosis Patients During Diagnosis and Treatment in Urban Areas of South Gujarat: A Mixed Method Approach.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
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Abstract
India accounts for the highest number of incident tuberculosis (TB) cases globally. Hence, to impact the TB incidence world over, there is an urgent need to address and accelerate TB control activities in the country. Nearly, half of the TB patients first seek TB care in private sector. However, the participation of private practitioners (PPs) has been patchy in TB prevention and care and distrust exists between public and private sector. PPs usually have varied diagnostic and treatment practices that are inadequate and amplify the risk of drug resistance. Hence, their regulation and involvement as key stakeholders are important in TB prevention and care in India if we are to achieve TB control at global level. However, there remain certain barriers and gaps, which are preventing their upscaling. The current paper aims to discuss the status of private sector involvement in TB prevention and care in India. The paper also discusses the strategies and initiatives taken by the government in this regard as evidence shows that the involvement of private sector in co-opting directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) helps to enhance case finding and treatment outcomes; it improves the accessibility of quality TB care with greater geographic coverage. Besides public-private mix, DOTS has been found more cost-effective and reduces financial burden of patients. The paper also offers to present some more solutions both at policy and program level for upscaling the engagement of PPs in the national TB control program.
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