creators_name: Sharma, VM creators_name: N, Anupama creators_id: anupamavsharma@yahoo.com editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas editors_id: Kakkilaya BS type: journale datestamp: 2013-05-04 22:49:58 lastmod: 2013-05-04 22:49:58 metadata_visibility: show title: Management of Tuberculosis - The Need to Enforce Proper Treatment Guidelines among Private Practitioners in India ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: Tuberculosis, RNTCP; MDR tuberculosis abstract: Tuberculosis continues to be a daunting challenge for our healthcare system. Even after fifteen years of the much publicised Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme that envisages directly observed short course chemotherapy (DOTS), TB continues to spread and drug resistant strains, MDR and XDR, are also increasingly reported. More than 50% of TB patients seeking private health care, but the level of awareness regarding treatment of TB among private practitioners appears to be poor. All this call for an urgent revamp of TB control strategy in India. date: 2012-01-15 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 10 number: 4(1) publisher: BS Kakkilaya refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. WHO Report 2011. Global tuberculosis control. WHO. Geneva. Available at http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2011/gtbr11_full.pdf 2. TB India 2011. RNTCP Status Report. Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Nirman Bhavan, New Delhi. March 2011. Available athttp://tbcindia.nic.in/pdfs/RNTCP%20TB%20India%202011.pdf 3. Uplekar MV, Rangan S. Private doctors and tuberculosis in India. Tubercle lung dis 1993;74: 332-337. 4. Wells WA, Ge CF, Patel N, Oh T, Gardiner et al. Size and usage patterns of private TB drug markets in the high burden countries. PLOS One 2011: 6(5)e 18964. doi:10.1371/journal. Pone.0018964. Available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018964 5. Udwadia Z F, Pinto LM, Uplekar MW. Tuberculosis management by private practitioners in Mumbai,India: Has anything changed in two decades? PLOS One 2010;5(8): e 12023. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012023. Available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0012023 6. Uplekar M, Juvekar S, Morankar S, Rangan S, Nunn P. Tuberculosis patients and practitioners in private clinics in India. Int J of Tuberc Lung Dis 1998;2;324-329. 7. International institute for population science (IIPS) and Macr International 2007. National family health survey (NFHS-3), 2005-2006:India. Volume-1. 8. Kelkar-Khambete A, Kielmann K, Pawar S, Porter J, Inamdar V et al. India’s Revised National Tuberculosis Control programme: Looking beyond detection and cure. Int J Tuber Lung Dis 2008;12: 87-92. 9. Global alliance for TB drug development. Pathway to patients: charting the dynamics of global TB drug market. TB alliance, New York. 2007 10. Khadse J, Bhardwaj SD, Ruikar M. Assessment of Knowledge and Practices of Referring Private Practitioners Regarding Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in Nagpur City- A Cross Sectional Study. Online J Health Allied Scs. 2011;10(4):2. Available at http://www.ojhas.org/issue40/2011-4-2.htm citation: Sharma, VM and N, Anupama (2012) Management of Tuberculosis - The Need to Enforce Proper Treatment Guidelines among Private Practitioners in India. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/8851/1/2011-4-1.pdf