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): DrAlpaDalal (GTB Hospital, Mumbai), DrAsha Fredrick (STO TN), Dr B. L Shahshibhushan (BMCRI, Bangalore),  Dr Jenifer Jeba (CMC Vellore),  DrMahilmaran M (Former Director, Institute of Thoracic Medicine Chennai), DrPadmapriyadarsini, (Former Director, NIRT), DrPramila Singh (MSF), DrRajaniBhat, (Sparsh Hospital, Bangalore), DrRajamIyer (Bhatia and P.D Hinduja, Hospital, Mumbai), DrRakesh P.S (The Union), DrRekhaBansal, (LBSGMC, Mandi),  DrRepublica Sridhar (TN Palliative Care Society), DrSanjeev Nair (Government Medical College, Thrissur), DrSreedeviWarrier (Pallium India), DrSubhakarkandi (Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad), Dr Suma Sivakumar (WHO NTEP TSN), DrVinod (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), DrJyotiJaju, Program Director (The Union). Dr Amar Shah (Chief of Infectious Diseases, USAID), DrBhavinVadera (Senior Health Advisor, USAID), DrSandeepChauhan (National Consultant, DR-TB) and DrMayank Mittal, (National Consultant, DR-TB). Overall coordination for developing this document was done by DrAnand (GHTM), DrRadhika (GHTM), DrDevanathan (GHTM), DrBanuRekha VV (NIRT), Dr Dina Nair (NIRT), DrMeera Bhatia (The Union).