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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The World Health Organization's framework for TB/HIV collaborative activities recommends provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) of patients with presumptive TB. In Myanmar, PITC among...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed
Impact of Introducing the Line Probe Assay on Time to Treatment Initiation of MDR-TB in Delhi, India
Setting National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (erstwhile Lala Ram Sarup Institute) in Delhi, India. Objectives To evaluate before and after the introduction of the line Probe Assay (LPA)... -
From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sharath Burugina Nagaraja 1 , 2 , * , Ajay M. V. Kumar 3 , Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva 2 , Ranjani Ramachandran 1 , Srinath Satyanarayana 3 , Avi Bansal 1 , 2 , Malik Parmar 1 , 2 , Sarabjit Chadha 3 , Sreenivas...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Bipra Bishnu 1 , * , Sudipto Bhaduri 2 , Ajay M. V. Kumar 3 , Eleanor S. Click 4 , Vineet Kumar Chadha 5 , Srinath Satyanarayana 3 , Sreenivas Achutan Nair 1 , Devesh Gupta 6 , Quazi T. Ahmed 1 , Silajit...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedSetting Four primary health care clinics providing tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus care services in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Objectives To assess isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) initiation and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Despite high antiretroviral (ARV) treatment coverage among pregnant women for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Zimbabwe, the MTCT rate is still...
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From:Journal of Global Infectious Diseases (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Fredrick. Mbiva, Hannock. Tweya, Srinath. Satyanarayana, Kudakwashe. Takarinda, Collins. Timire, Janet. Dzangare, Phoebe. Nzombe, Tsitsi. Apollo, Bekezela. Khabo, Exevia. Mazarura Introduction: Routine viral...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Tuberculosis (TB) notification in India by the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) provides information on TB patients registered for treatment from the programme. There is limited information...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground In India, TB and HIV co-infection remains as a serious public health problem. From 2006 onwards, the intensified TB-HIV collaborative activities are being jointly implemented by National AIDS Control...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground Tuberculosis (TB) patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection have worse TB treatment outcomes compared to patients with TB alone. The distribution of unfavourable treatment outcomes...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground Childhood tuberculosis (TB) patients under India's Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) are managed using diagnostic algorithms and directly observed treatment with intermittent thrice-weekly...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground Early and accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis is a priority for TB programs globally to initiate treatment early and improve treatment outcomes. Currently, Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stain-based microscopy,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Stigmatising and discriminating attitudes may discourage tuberculosis (TB) patients from actively seeking medical care, hide their disease status, and discontinue treatment. It is expected that appropriate...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Durba Paul 1 , * , Arundhathi Busireddy 2 , Sharath Burugina Nagaraja 1 , Srinath Satyanarayana 3 , Puneet Kumar Dewan 1 , Sreenivas Achutan Nair 3 , Silajit Sarkar 1 , Quazi Toufique Ahmed 1 , Shakuntala...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sokhan Khann 1,*, Eang Tan Mao 2, Yadav Prasad Rajendra 1, Srinath Satyanarayana 3, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja 4, Ajay M. V. Kumar 3 Introduction Globally, of the estimated 290,000 cases of multidrug...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSetting Private medical practitioners in Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Objectives To evaluate self-reported TB diagnostic and treatment practices amongst private medical practitioners against...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground CD4 cell count measurement remains an important diagnostic tool for HIV care in developing countries. Insufficient laboratory capacity in rural Sub-Saharan Africa is frequently mentioned but data on the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground In 2009, nearly half (289,756) of global re-treatment TB notifications are from India; no nationally-representative data on the source of previous treatment was available to inform strategies for...