AYUSH M-2: TB Diagnosis, Treatment and Adherence

Target Audience

• AYUSH Practitioners

• AYUSH CH: TB Diagnosis and Case Findings

  • Symptoms of TB Disease
  • Presumptive TB
  • Presumptive Pulmonary TB
  • Presumptive EP-TB
  • Presumptive Paediatric TB
  • Screening For Tuberculosis Disease
  • Diagnostic Algorithm for TB Disease in NTEP
  • Biological Specimen for Diagnosis of TB
  • Sputum Collection Process
  • Approaches to TB Case Finding
  • Principles and Methods of Testing for TB diagnosis
  • Bidirectional Screening Approach
  • Microscopy in TB Diagnosis
  • Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test [CBNAAT]
  • Truenat MTB and RIF Assay as a TB Diagnostic Test
  • Sputum Collection centres
  • Spot and early morning sputum sample
  • Steps to Ensure a Good Quality Sputum Sample

• AYUSH CH: General Concepts in TB treatment

  • Goals of treatment
  • Strategies for TB Treatment
  • First line anti TB drugs
  • Treatment Phases
  • Fixed Dose Combinations [FDC]s
  • Advantages of FDCs
  • FDCs used in NTEP
  • TB Drug Regimen
  • Categorization of TB Treatment Regimen
  • Classification of TB cases based on history of Previous TB treatment
  • TB Notification
  • Financial incentives for Private Providers and Informants

• AYUSH CH: DS-TB Treatment and Care

  • Drug-Sensitive Tuberculosis [DS-TB]
  • TB Treatment – Steps
  • Treatment Regimen for DSTB – Adult
  • Treatment Regimen for DSTB - Pediatrics
  • ADRs to First Line Treatment
  • Follow-up of TB patient
  • TB Treatment Outcome

• AYUSH CH: DR-TB Treatment and care

  • Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis [DR-TB]
  • Screening for DR-TB
  • Types of Drug Resistance Tuberculosis -DRTB
  • DR-TB Treatment Regimens
  • DR-TB Treatment – Patient Flow
  • Pre-treatment Evaluation [PTE] of DR-TB Patients​
  • ADRs to Second Line Treatment

• AYUSH CH: TB Preventive Treatment

  • TB Infection
  • Testing for TB Infection
  • Counselling for IGRA/TST
  • TB Preventive Therapy
  • Counselling for TPT
  • Regimen for TPT
  • ADRs due to TPT
  • Cascade of Care for TPT
  • Approaches for TPT implementation
  • Monitoring adherence to TPT
  • Follow-up Monitoring for individuals taking TPT
  • Management of missed doses in TPT
  • Treatment outcomes after TPT
  • Contraindications of TPT

• AYUSH CH: TB Treatment Adherence

  • TB Treatment Adherence
  • Importance of Treatment adherence
  • Recording and Monitoring Adherence
  • Digital Adherence Monitoring Technologies
  • Recording manual doses in Ni-kshay
  • Recording missed doses in Ni-kshay