BACKGROUND The Government of India, made TB notification by private healthcare providers mandatory from May 2012 onwards. The National TB Programme developed a case based web based online reporting mechanism called NIKSHAY. However, the notification by private providers has been very low. We conducted the present study to determine the awareness, practice and anticipated enablers related to TB ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost and effectiveness of three approaches to partner notification for infectious syphilis. STUDY DESIGN People with syphilis were randomly assigned to: (1) notification of partners by patients themselves within 2 days or disease intervention specialists would notify them; (2) immediate notification by intervention specialist; or (3) immediate notification by interv...

Currently, Web Services for network management have been an intensive field of investigation. However, the investigations carried up to do not properly address the issue related to event notifications. The Simple Network Management Protocol, which is the widely deployed and accepted solution, has an interesting but also limited support for event notification through its trap messages. In this p...

BACKGROUND Despite being a recognized standard of tuberculosis (TB) care internationally, mandatory TB case notification brings forth challenges from the private sector. Only three TB cases were notified in 2013 by private practitioners compared to 2000 TB cases notified yearly from the public sector in Alappuzha district. The study objective was to explore the knowledge, opinion and barriers r...