Abstract The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program was started in India in 1997.
There has been no nationwide survey to assess the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis …

Background Systematic screening in high‐burden settings is recommended as a strategy for
early detection of pulmonary tuberculosis disease, reducing mortality, morbidity and …

Background Pakistan is fifth among high burden countries for tuberculosis. A steady
increase is seen in extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB), which now accounts for 20% of all …

Background: Women in the rural districts of Pakistan face numerous barriers to healthcare,
rendering gender-responsive health programming important, including for the disease of …

The introduction of digital CXR with automated computer-aided interpretation, has given
impetus to the role of CXR in TB screening, particularly in low resource, high-burden …

Background Ratios of bacteriologically positive tuberculosis (TB) prevalence to notification
rates are used to characterise typical durations of TB disease. However, this ignores the …

Introduction: Pakistan ranks fifth in the globally estimated burden of tuberculosis (TB) case
incidence. Annually, a gap of 241,688 patients with TB exists between estimated TB …

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of avoidable deaths from an infectious disease
globally and a large of number of people who develop TB each year remain undiagnosed …

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in Myanmar. The
fourth National TB Prevalence Survey was conducted in 2017–2018 to determine the actual …

India launched a national community-based active TB case finding (ACF) campaign in 2017
as part of the strategic plan of the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) …