A mixed method study to assess notification of tuberculosis patients by private practitioners in New Delhi, India

• Main Authors: Rashmi Agarwalla (Author), Rambha Pathak (Author), Faheem Ahmed (Author), Farzana Islam (Author), Varun Kashyap (Author), Himashree Bhattacharyya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Background: A staggering one million tuberculosis (TB) cases are missing from notification, most of them being diagnosed and treated in the private sector. To curb this issue, the Government of India declared TB as a notifiable disease and NIKSHAY was launched in 2012. However, even after years of i...