Subbaraman et al. present a cascade of care for tuberculosis (TB) in India’s public sector for the year 2013. Drawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Reports, the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) of the Government of India annual reports as well as three systematic reviews conducted

There are enough constitutional, legal and ethical imperatives to state that all emergency care should be available to everyone irrespective of paying capacity. The State should be responsible for providing emergency care via the public sector or for strategically purchasing it from private providers. Even if that arrangement is not

A multipronged strategy focusing on improving diagnostic capacity, guaranteeing high-quality treatment and preventing transmission will be central to meeting the challenge of DR-TB in India. Click here to read the article. Drug-resistant tuberculosis: is India ready for the challenge?

The provision of care through local facilities improves the treatment of tuberculosis in rural India. Interventions addressing death or loss to follow-up should focus on the newly diagnosed. Rural Indian physicians should be aware of how access issues affect TB treatment outcomes. Concludes our article on retrospective cohort analysis of

medical student reads about diphtheria and is tested on it extensively in multiple-choice questions, short answers and viva voce. I had never seen the disease and believed that I would possibly never see it in this lifetime. Yet, on my first morning at Jan Swasthya Sahayog (JSS), Ganiyari, I woke

The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act was written to prevent societally unacceptable harms including intentional sex selection. The pragmatism required to enforce this law has profound effects on the ability of rural Indians to access diagnostic ultrasonography. In so doing, it may have inadvertently placed a heavier burden on

Peer support groups can help patients find support, adhere to treatment, and advocate for their needs collectively…Says the article sharing the experience with such groups in rural India. Click here to read the article.

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