IEC-M1: Basics of Tuberculosis and NTEP

Target Audience

• State ACSM/ IEC Officer

• IEC-CH 1: TB & TB Epidemiology

  • Tuberculosis [TB]
  • Burden of TB in India
  • Evolution of TB Elimination Programme in India
  • Stages in the life of a person with TB
  • TB Causative organism
  • Mode of TB Transmission
  • Symptoms of TB Disease
  • Progression to TB Disease
  • TB Infection Vs Active TB Disease
  • Risk Factors for TB Disease
  • Presumptive TB
  • Prevention of TB

• IEC-CH 2: NTEP

  • 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
  • Standards of TB Care in India
  • Stages in the life of a person with TB

• IEC-CH3: Diagnostic Technologies

  • Screening For Tuberculosis Disease
  • Approaches to TB Case Finding
  • Active Case Finding [ACF]
  • Classification of TB on the basis of Drug Resistance

• IEC-CH4: TB Case Finding in NTEP

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