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Drug-Resistant TB Could Threaten Control Efforts in India
December 18, 2007 at 3:38 PM
Indian Health News
About 3% of new TB cases are believed to be drug-resistant, according to a study conducted in the Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, Ramadoss said. The two states have been using DOTS Plus for the management of multi-drug resistant TB since early this year, and the program is scheduled to be expanded to other states by 2009 or 2010, Ramadoss said.
Improving treatment quality and promoting the effective use of TB drugs are necessary to help prevent the spread of drug-resistant forms of the disease, he added. It also is important that researchers continue with development of a vaccine to combat TB.
According to Ramadoss, RNTCP is one of the few DOTS programs in the world that has guidelines about public-private partnerships. He said that public-private partnership programs in a number of Indian cities have recorded additional TB case detection of between 15% and 45%. He said that coordinated HIV/TB programs, implemented by both RNTCP and the National AIDS Control Organization, would be scaled up to cover 14 states.
The number of coordinated HIV/TB programs has more than doubled since 2005, Ramadoss said, adding that this represents a "quantum jump ... in the number of cross referrals between the two programs." He added that a 10-point TB counseling tool had been developed by RNTCP for use in voluntary counseling and testing centers.
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