Tuberculosis management in India during COVID-19 crisis

During the early months of the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, critical services in India for tuberculosis (TB) have been disrupted. India has one of the highest burdens of TB and requires continuity of critical TB care. Here, we highlight important points and approaches that can be used to guide navigation o...

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Autores principales: Awasthi, Avijit Kumar, Singh, Pravin Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2020
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Letter to the Editors
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7683869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-020-00265-8
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spelling pubmed-76838692020-11-24 Tuberculosis management in India during COVID-19 crisis Awasthi, Avijit Kumar Singh, Pravin Kumar J Public Health Policy Letter to the Editors During the early months of the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, critical services in India for tuberculosis (TB) have been disrupted. India has one of the highest burdens of TB and requires continuity of critical TB care. Here, we highlight important points and approaches that can be used to guide navigation of the combined COVID-19 and TB crisis in India. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2020-11-24 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7683869/ /pubmed/33235251 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-020-00265-8 Text en © Springer Nature Limited 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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