Need for operational simplicity and timely disbursal of benefits-a qualitative exploration of the implementation of a direct benefit transfer scheme for persons with tuberculosis in India

• Main Authors: Malu Mohan (Author), Jeromie W. V. Thangaraj (Author), Sumit Pandey (Author), G. Sri Lakshmi Priya (Author), Sivavallinathan Arunachalam (Author), Rahul Sharma (Author), Hemant Deepak Shewade (Author), B. Aishwarya (Author), K. Afeeq (Author), Afsana Khatoon (Author), B. Gokulvijay (Author), Gude Sireesha (Author), Kavita Chandra (Author), S. Nandhakumar (Author), Prince Samuel (Author), C. Nanditha Viswanathan (Author), Devika Shanmugasundaram (Author), Raghuram Rao (Author), Manoj V. Murhekar (Author), Kathiresan Jeyashree (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana (NPY) is a direct benefit transfer scheme of the Government of India introduced in 2018 to support the additional nutritional requirements of persons with TB (PwTB). Our recent nationwide evaluation of implementation and utilization of NPY using programmati...