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Impact of advocacy on the tuberculosis management practices of private practitioners in Chennai City, India
Authors: N. Krishnan,* R. Ananthakrishnan,* S. Augustine,* N. K. Vijayalakshmi,* P. G. Gopi,†V. Kumaraswami,† P. R. Narayanan†
* Resource Group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health, Chennai, † Tuberculosis Research Centre, IndianCouncil of Medical Research, Chennai, India

Innovative schemes to ensure the participationof private practitioners (PPs) in the Revised NationalTuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) arenecessary to identify and treat all patients with tuberculosis(TB). We developed a novel public-private mix (PPM)model to encourage PPs to practise DOTS and participatein the RNTCP while retaining their patients.

The full text of this paper, published in the TheInternational Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (INT J TUBERC LUNG DIS 13(1):112–118), is available here