TB FREE TAMIL NADU 2025 | Mission END TB | National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme | NHM TN

Описание: National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme

National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) aims of stepping up the efforts of elimination of the menace of Tuberculosis in India. The Programme delivers TB Care Services with its full potential in line with the National Strategic Plan 2017-2025.

The NTEP aims early diagnosis and free treatment of Tuberculosis patients both in the public as well as in the Private Sector. Drug Sensitive TB is treated using Fixed Drug Combinations (FDC) as per appropriate weight bands. The FDCs are also made available to private providers for those patients who prefer treatment in private hospitals.

Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant TB (PMDT):

The programme provides Universal access to quality diagnosis and treatment of Drug resistant Tuberculosis. The Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (CBNAAT) is available at all District Tuberculosis Centre to identify Rifampicin Resistant Tuberculosis.
Specialised lab diagnostic services such as Line Probe Assay(LPA), Mycobacterium Growth Indicator Test (MGIT), Solid Culture test (LJ-Lowenstein Jensen Medium) are done at (IRL) Intermediate Reference Laboratory and Culture & Drug Sensitivity Test (C&DST) Labs

Wards have been created for programmatic Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis at all districts. Extensively Drug Resistant TB Cases are managed at GHTM-Tambaram, Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Thanjavur & Vellore.

New drugs namely Bedaquiline for adult TB patients and Delamanid for pediatric TB patients have been introduced in our State for the first time in the country for DR-TB patients. As on 31st December 2019, there are 24 patients being treated with Bedaquiline and 4 patients on Delamanid in Tamil Nadu.

New Initiatives by Government of Tamil Nadu:

● As the incidence of TB cases in Tamil Nadu is showing a steady decrease, we have initiated “TB Free Tamil Nadu – 2025” Strategy in all districts based on the four pillars of national strategic plan, namely “Detect – Treat – Prevent – Build” (DTPB).

● Active Case Finding (ACF) is conducted in all the districts of Tamil Nadu using two mobile CBNAAT vans.

● Screening of inmates of prisons and other closed settings like Swadhar and Ujjwala homes for both TB & HIV.