Impact of awareness drives and community-based active tuberculosis case finding in Odisha, India

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• Alternative Title:
  Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
• Personal Author:
  Parija, D. ; Patra, T. K. ; Kumar, A. M. V. ; Swain, B. K. ; Satyanarayana, S. ; Sreenivas, A. ; Chadha, V. K. ; Moonan, P. K. ; Oeltmann, J. E.
• Description:
  India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control programme employs passive case detection. The new sputum smear-positive case detection rate is less than 70% in Odisha State. During April-June 2012, active case finding (ACF) was conducted through awareness drives and field-based tuberculosis (TB) screening in select communities with the lowest case detection rates. During the campaign, 240 sputum smear-positive TB cases were detected. The number of smear-positive cases detected increased by 11% relative to April-June 2011 in intervention communities compared to an 0.8% increase in non-intervention communities. ACF brought TB services closer to the community and increased TB case detection.
• Subjects:
  Active Case Finding Antitubercular Agents Article Awareness Awareness Drives Bacteriological Techniques Community Health Services Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health Promotion Health Services Accessibility Humans India Mass Screening Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Outreach Patient Education As Topic Predictive Value Of Tests Program Evaluation Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme Sputum Surveillance Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

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• Source:
  Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 18(9):1105-1107
• Pubmed ID:
  25189560
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4866500
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  001/WHO_/World Health OrganizationInternational/ ; CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  18
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d0596c4e3902e9c86e0593756fcac9da026d00cc6333edb8b45c24df5b1bfc75
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/39457/cdc_39457_DS1.pdf
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