Rapidly growing rate of infection among health workers during the current COVID-19
pandemic, is posing a serious challenge to global health systems. Lately, India is also …

BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought
fundamental changes to our problems and priorities, especially those related to the …

Abstract Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) in high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries
are at increased risk of TB infection due to increased exposures to TB patients and …

Abstract The World Health Organization advocates a multimodal approach to improving
infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, which Kenya adopted in response to the …

Background The poor practice of tuberculosis infection control may increase the risk of
transmission of tuberculosis in healthcare settings. Thus, this study aimed to determine the …

Background Hospital waiting areas are overlooked from the airborne infection control
viewpoint as they are not classified as critical for infection control. This is the area where …

Abstract The Indian Supreme Court has declared the right to healthy environment a
fundamental right available to citizens of India. This in contrast to Indian executive's …

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is a major health hazard in India and is one of the leading
causes of death worldwide. Airborne transmission of infectious disease is a major public …

Introduction: Globally there were an estimated 10.6 million new tuberculosis patients and 1.7
million deaths from TB in 2016. There is an evidence of tuberculosis transmission at health …

India has the ambitious plan to End TB by 2025 which is five years ahead of the global
strategy. To emphasise the point and not to be complaisant, the earlier Revised National …