Adverse Drug Reactions to First Line of Treatment 

DSTB Treatment duration is of 6–9-month course of antibiotics. The duration and drug dosage used may vary according to a patient’s age, type of TB infection, and whether s/he has been treated before.

The standard 6-month course of treatment consists of two phases. 

Community Health Volunteers(CHVs) have to refer the presumptive cases identified based on the r symptom screening to the nearest NTEP health facility for further investigation. Once Diagnosed with TB, the TB patients are initiated on the first-line TB treatment. Patients are also offered NAAT within a maximum of 15 days to rule out any drug resistance. If no drug resistance is detected, then the patient continues on the first-line TB treatment. TB patients are then clinically evaluated every month to check the progress of TB treatment. 

DS-TB Treatment Phases

DS-TB Treatment – Patient Flow

• Explain about DS-TB Treatment and care, Treatment Regimen prescribed for Adults & Paediatric and Adverse drug reaction to first-line TB treatment
• Describe about DR-TB Treatment and care, Types of Drug Resistance Tuberculosis, DR-TB Treatment Regimen and Adverse Drug Reaction to second line TB treatment
• Explain about the TB Infection (previously known as Latent TB infection), its Testing and patient flow for TB infection treatment
• Describe various screening and management of TB Co-morbidities and special situations.

For the TB patients, to login into the application, Nikshay ID is required. 

After Installing the App, all users will have access to the static content of the App which includes useful information around TB and its diagnosis. It covers the following sections:

Figure: Informative Page in TB Aarogya Sathi Application

Patient – TB Aarogya Sathi Application

Citizen – TB Aarogya Sathi Application