Sustained reduction in program-reported TB death rate in six districts following Tamil Nadu Kasanoi Erappila Thittam in southern India
Asha Frederick, S. Ganapathy, S. Karunakaran, R. Sudhakar, Zufire Hassan Mohamed Khan, R. Saravanan, M. Balasubramaniam, R. Srinivasan, Dilsadh Kabir, Suseendar Shanmugasundaram, R. Vijayaprabha, K. Gayathri, A. Jeyakumar, Jeen M. Melfha, S. Kiran Pradeep, Prabhadevi Ravichandran, K. Rambha, M. Erai · 2026
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Asha Frederick and co-authors report falling tuberculosis death rates in six districts of Tamil Nadu after a state care initiative in a 2026 paper. The program, launched in April 2022, triages adults with tuberculosis at diagnosis. Those who are severely undernourished, short of breath, or too weak are fast-tracked to full assessment and hospital care.
Comparing routine data before and after the launch, death rates fell in all six districts over two years. Some districts more than halved their rates. Standardized comparisons confirmed the drops were sustained, and gains appeared in districts that started with both high and low death burdens. The authors present simple triage inside routine services as a model other programs can copy.
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| CREATOR | Asha Frederick, S. Ganapathy, S. Karunakaran, R. Sudhakar, Zufire Hassan Mohamed Khan, R. Saravanan, M. Balasubramaniam, R. Srinivasan, Dilsadh Kabir, Suseendar Shanmugasundaram, R. Vijayaprabha, K. Gayathri, A. Jeyakumar, Jeen M. Melfha, S. Kiran Pradeep, Prabhadevi Ravichandran, K. Rambha, M. Erai |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |