title: Impact of awareness drives and community-based active tuberculosis case finding in Odisha, India.
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.
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization Country Office for India, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Parija
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar, India.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Patra
authors.affiliation: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: A M V
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar, India.
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Swain
authors.affiliation: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Satyanarayana
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization Country Office for India, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sreenivas
authors.affiliation: National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Chadha
authors.affiliation: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Moonan
authors.affiliation: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Oeltmann
mesh_terms: D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001364:Awareness; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D003153:Community Health Services; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents