Impact of Advocacy, Communication, Social Mobilization and Active Case Finding on TB Notification in Jharkhand, India

• Main Authors: Hemant Deepak Shewade (Author), Vivek Gupta (Author), Vaibhav Haribhau Ghule (Author), Sashikanta Nayak (Author), Srinath Satyanarayana (Author), Rakesh Dayal (Author), Subrat Mohanty (Author), Sukhwinder Singh (Author), Moumita Biswas (Author), Kiran Kumar Reddy (Author), Gayadhar Mallick (Author), Om Prakash Bera (Author), Prabhat Pandey (Author), Sripriya Pandurangan (Author), Raghuram Rao (Author), Banuru Muralidhara Prasad (Author), Ajay Madhugiri Venkatachalaiah Kumar (Author), Sarabjit Singh Chadha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Springer, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Community-level benefits of screening for active tuberculosis (TB) disease remain uncertain. Project Axshya (meaning free of TB) conducted advocacy, communication, social mobilization, and active case finding among vulnerable/marginalized populations of India. Among 15 districts of Jharkhand state,...