Pharmacist: Basics of TB and NTEP

Target Audience

• Pharmacist/ Storekeeper (SDS)

• Pharmacist: TB & TB Epidemiology

  • Tuberculosis [TB]
  • Global Burden of TB
  • Burden of TB in India
  • TB Causative organism
  • Mode of TB Transmission
  • Pathogenesis of TB
  • TB Infection
  • Progression to TB Disease
  • TB Infection Vs Active TB Disease
  • Determinants of TB Disease
  • Socio-Economic Determinants for Tuberculosis
  • Vulnerable Population for Tuberculosis
  • Prevention of TB
  • Chemotherapy and its implication in TB control
  • Notification Rate

• Pharmacist: National TB Elimination Program

  • Evolution of TB Elimination Programme in India
  • NTEP NSP targets
  • National Strategic Plan [NSP] for TB Elimination 2017-25
  • NTEP Objectives- in relation to NSP 2017-2025
  • Organizational Structure of NTEP
  • The State TB Cell
  • State TB Training and Demonstration Centre [STDC]
  • District TB Centre [DTC]
  • Tuberculosis Unit [TU]
  • Peripheral Health Institutions [PHI] and Health Facilities
  • DR-TB Centres and Network
  • Drugs Stores in NTEP
  • Standards of TB Care in India
  • Stages in the life of a person with TB

• Pharmacist: Diagnostic Technologies

  • Principles and Methods of Testing for TB diagnosis
  • Microscopy in TB Diagnosis
  • Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test [CBNAAT]
  • TrueNAT MTB and RIF Assay
  • Line Probe Assay [LPA]
  • Solid and Liquid Culture in TB
  • Culture Drug Susceptibility Testing [CDST]

• Pharmacist: Approaches to TB Case Finding

  • Screening For Tuberculosis Disease
  • Approaches to TB Case Finding
  • Active Case Finding [ACF]

• Pharmacist: TB Case Finding in NTEP

  • Classification of TB cases based on history of Previous TB treatment
  • Classification of TB on the basis of Drug Resistance
  • Classification of TB on the basis of Type of Diagnosis