Figure: Nikshay Home Page
After login in Nikshay, using the login credential shared by NTEP Health Staff, Treatment Supporter will be able to access the following button:
After completion of TB treatment, all patients should be followed up at the end of
TB patients at the follow up should be screened for any clinical symptoms and/or cough. If found positive on screening, then sputum microscopy and/or culture should be considered. This is important in detecting the recurrence of TB at the earliest.
Adverse Drug Reactions(ADR) are unwanted or harmful reactions experienced following the use of a drug or combination of drugs and are suspected to be related to a drug. Severity of adverse effects varies from tolerable and mild ADRs to serious and life threatening ADRs.
Figure: Various Adverse Drug Reactions
Common ADR Symptoms:
When a TB patient consumes all the doses under the prescribed regimen, then Treatment Outcome is declared for a Patient.
|
Treatment Outcome |
Description |
|
Cured |
A TB patient who was microbiologically confirmed for TB at the beginning of treatment but who is smear or culture negative at the end of complete treatment |
|
Treatment Complete |
To know the TB treatment response and to determine that if patient is cured, TB patients are clinically evaluated at the end of every four weeks of treatment, and they are also followed up by performing sputum test at end of each treatment phase (i.e. Intensive phase and Continuation phase)
TB patients during clinical evaluations are assessed to
A regimen means a prescribed systematic form of treatment for a course of drug(s). For TB treatment, Multi drug combination of regimen is followed.
All TB drug regimens have an initial intensive phase(IP) followed by a continuation phase(CP).
Following are some of the main TB drug regimens used based on the drug resistance pattern detected for TB patients.
The primary impact of HIV on TB is that the risk of developing TB becomes higher in patients with HIV. Overall, HIV-infected persons have an approximately 8-times greater risk of TB than persons without HIV infection.
Screen TB PLHIV patients for symptoms of TB and HIV
Figure: Screening steps for TB - HIV patients
Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) is a major initiative of Government of India (GoI) whereby any government subsidy or benefit is to be transferred directly into the beneficiary's bank accounts. Intermediary government agencies only manage the process of payments, without handling actutal money.
Standard TB Treatment is divided into two phases
