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White paper on challenges and opportunities for TB elimination with focus on COVID & Post-COVID era developed through scientific roundtable resolutions at NATCON 2020.
- Source :
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The Indian journal of tuberculosis [Indian J Tuberc] 2021 Jan; Vol. 68 (1), pp. 134-138. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jan 11. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- A group of TB experts with vast clinical and epidemiological experience were drawn from a pool of doctors, epidemiologists and scientists participating in NATCON 2020 Conference in a closed-door session to discuss, highlight, and prioritize key resolutions that are most pertinent at present to eliminate TB from India and other developing countries in the Covid and post-COVID era. These Scientific experts were non-industry persons who met on 17th December, 2020 and used the prevailing scientific literature along with 2019 Joint Monitoring Mission document as a starting point of the discussion on this specific topic to build an agreement upon the resolutions. After the meeting on the virtual platform, all the attending doctors gave a set of recommendations on rebuilding TB Elimination programme in the Covid and Post-Covid era. Focused scientific roundtable discussion on rebuilding TB Elimination Post-Covid. Develop actionable recommendations for the scientific community and the government leadership to consider in moving forward. To prioritize the recommendations in the categories of Build-Prevent-Detect-Treat.<br /> (Copyright © 2021 Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0019-5707
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Indian journal of tuberculosis
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 33641834
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2021.01.002