Acknowledgement

The guidance document for integration of Palliative Care in Tuberculosis is an initiative by Central TB Division and Government Hospital for Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram Chennai. Special thanks to Dr Sanjay Kumar Mattoo (Addl. DDG- TB, CTD) for spearheading the initiative. The guidelines have been developed as the end product of a series of consultations and meetings of the working committee held under the leadership of Dr P.M Ramesh, Medical Superintendent GHTM, Tambaram, Chennai. An expert group was constituted and was chaired by Dr R. Sridhar (Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Chennai). 

We express our gratitude to the eminent technical experts for developing this document (alphabetical Order): Dr Alpa Dalal (GTB Hospital, Mumbai), Dr Asha Fredrick (STO TN), Dr B. L Shahshibhushan (BMCRI, Bangalore),  Dr Jenifer Jeba (CMC Vellore),  Dr Mahilmaran M (Former Director, Institute of Thoracic Medicine Chennai), Dr Padmapriyadarsini, (Former Director, NIRT), Dr Pramila Singh (MSF), Dr Rajani Bhat, (Sparsh Hospital, Bangalore), Dr Rajam Iyer (Bhatia and P.D Hinduja, Hospital, Mumbai), Dr Rakesh P.S (The Union), Dr Rekha Bansal, (LBSGMC, Mandi),  Dr Republica Sridhar (TN Palliative Care Society), Dr Sanjeev Nair (Government Medical College, Thrissur), Dr Sreedevi Warrier (Pallium India), Dr Subhakarkandi (Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad), Dr Suma Sivakumar (WHO NTEP TSN), Dr Vinod (Director, Institute of Thoracic Medicine, Chennai), Dr Vijay Chavan (MSF)

We also acknowledge the guidance and support of Dr Malik Parmar (National Professional Officer, WHO India), Dr Jyoti Jaju, Program Director (The Union). Dr Amar Shah (Chief of Infectious Diseases, USAID), DrBhavinVadera (Senior Health Advisor, USAID), Dr Sandeep Chauhan (National Consultant, DR-TB) and Dr Mayank Mittal, (National Consultant, DR-TB). Overall coordination for developing this document was done by Dr Anand (GHTM), Dr Radhika (GHTM), Dr Devanathan (GHTM), Dr BanuRekha VV (NIRT), Dr Dina Nair (NIRT), Dr Meera Bhatia (The Union) and Richard Samuel (The Union).