• Title Engaging Community Pharmacists in India to Enhance Early Detection of Tuberculosis
  • Granting Agency IC-IMPACTS Centres of Excellence
  • Period 1 June 2015 – 31 March 2018
  • Amount $252,500 CAD

This project is focused on improving tuberculosis detection in India, by engaging community-based pharmacists and use mobile technologies to facilitate referral and linkages.

Publications

Daftary, Amrita; Satyanarayana, Srinath; Jha, Nita; Singh, Mugdha; Mondal, Shinjini; Vadnais, Caroline; Pai, Madhukar

Can community pharmacists improve tuberculosis case finding? A mixed methods intervention study in India (Journal Article)

In: BMJ Global Health, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. e001417, 2019.

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Daftary, Amrita; Frick, Mike; Venkatesan, Nandita; Pai, Madhukar

Fighting TB stigma: we need to apply lessons learnt from HIV activism (Journal Article)

In: BMJ Global Health, vol. 2, pp. e000515, 2017.

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Cazabon, Danielle; Alsdurf, Hannah; Satyanarayana, Srinath; Nathavitharana, Ruvandhi; Subbaraman, Ramnath; Daftary, Amrita; Pai, Madhukar

Quality of tuberculosis care in high burden countries: the urgent need to address gaps in the care cascade (Journal Article)

In: International Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 56, pp. 111–116, 2017.

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Daftary, Amrita; Jha, Nita; Pai, Madhukar

Enhancing the role of pharmacists in the cascade of tuberculosis care (Journal Article)

In: Journal of epidemiology and global health, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1, 2017.

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Satyanarayana, Srinath; Kwan, Ada; Daniels, Benjamin; Subbaraman, Ramnath; McDowell, Andrew; Bergkvist, Sofi; Das, Ranendra K; Das, Veena; Das, Jishnu; Pai, Madhukar

Use of standardised patients to assess antibiotic dispensing for tuberculosis by pharmacies in urban India: a cross-sectional study (Journal Article)

In: The Lancet Infectious Diseases, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1261–1268, 2016.

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Daftary, Amrita; Pai, Madhukar

Tuberculosis therapy in Mumbai: Critical importance of drug-susceptibility testing (Journal Article)

In: Lung India, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 251, 2016.

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McDowell, Andrew; Pai, Madhukar

Alternative medicine: an ethnographic study of how practitioners of Indian medical systems manage TB in Mumbai (Journal Article)

In: Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 192–198, 2016.

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Pai, Madhukar; Daftary, Amrita; Satyanarayana, Srinath

TB control: challenges and opportunities for India (Journal Article)

In: Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 158–160, 2016.

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McDowell, A; Pai, M

Treatment as diagnosis and diagnosis as treatment: empirical management of presumptive tuberculosis in India (Journal Article)

In: The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 536–543, 2016.

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News

Pharmacists can help track TB patients

Tweaked pharmacy referral model increases TB case-finding

Free chest X-ray vouchers push up TB diagnosis: Study

Community pharmacists can help track tuberculosis patients, study finds

How Pharmacies Can Help India’s Battle Against TB