Assessing the impact of COVID-19 management on the workload of human resources working in India's National Tuberculosis Elimination Program

• Main Authors: Christina Mergenthaler (Author), Aarushi Bhatnagar (Author), Di Dong (Author), Vimal Kumar (Author), Chantale Lakis (Author), Ronald Mutasa (Author), Shankar Dapkekar (Author), Agrima Sahore (Author), Sapna Surendran (Author), Gyorgy Fritsche (Author), Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva (Author), Marjolein Dieleman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In 1993, WHO declared tuberculosis (TB) as a global health emergency considering 10 million people are battling TB, of which 30% are undiagnosed annually. In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic took an unprecedented toll on health systems in every country. Public health staff already enga...