Active versus passive case finding for tuberculosis in marginalised and vulnerable populations in India: comparison of treatment outcomes

• Main Authors: Hemant Deepak Shewade (Author), Vivek Gupta (Author), Srinath Satyanarayana (Author), Sunil Kumar (Author), Prabhat Pandey (Author), U. N. Bajpai (Author), Jaya Prasad Tripathy (Author), Soundappan Kathirvel (Author), Sripriya Pandurangan (Author), Subrat Mohanty (Author), Vaibhav Haribhau Ghule (Author), Karuna D. Sagili (Author), Banuru Muralidhara Prasad (Author), Priyanka Singh (Author), Kamlesh Singh (Author), Gurukartick Jayaraman (Author), P. Rajeswaran (Author), Moumita Biswas (Author), Gayadhar Mallick (Author), Ali Jafar Naqvi (Author), Ashwin Kumar Bharadwaj (Author), K. Sathiyanarayanan (Author), Aniruddha Pathak (Author), Nisha Mohan (Author), Raghuram Rao (Author), Ajay M. V. Kumar (Author), Sarabjit Singh Chadha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Community-based active case finding (ACF) for tuberculosis (TB) implemented among marginalised and vulnerable populations in 285 districts of India resulted in reduction of diagnosis delay and prevalence of catastrophic costs due to TB diagnosis. We were interested to know whether this t...