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. 2014 Sep;18(9):1105-7.
doi: 10.5588/ijtld.13.0918.

Impact of awareness drives and community-based active tuberculosis case finding in Odisha, India

D Parija  1 , T K Patra  2 , A M V Kumar  3 , B K Swain  2 , S Satyanarayana  3 , A Sreenivas  1 , V K Chadha  4 , P K Moonan  5 , J E Oeltmann  5
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Impact of awareness drives and community-based active tuberculosis case finding in Odisha, India

D Parija et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2014 Sep.

Abstract

India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control programme employs passive case detection. The new sputum smear-positive case detection rate is less than 70% in Odisha State. During April-June 2012, active case finding (ACF) was conducted through awareness drives and field-based tuberculosis (TB) screening in select communities with the lowest case detection rates. During the campaign, 240 sputum smear-positive TB cases were detected. The number of smear-positive cases detected increased by 11% relative to April-June 2011 in intervention communities compared to an 0.8% increase in non-intervention communities. ACF brought TB services closer to the community and increased TB case detection.

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