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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2052</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>EVALUATION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REVISED NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL&#13;
PROGRAMME IN THE PRIMARY HEALTH CENTERS&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Hatnoor</surname><given-names>Shivappa</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>N</surname><given-names>Sangolli H</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Hemagiri.K</surname><given-names/></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>M.D</surname><given-names>Mallapur</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>C.S</surname><given-names>VinodKumar</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>84</fpage><lpage>96</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Tuberculosis continues to be one of the most important public health problem worldwide. It&#13;
infects one third of the world__ampersandsignlsquo;s population at any point of time. There are approximately 9&#13;
million new cases of all form of tuberculosis occurring annually and 3 million people die from&#13;
it each year. Out of these 95% tuberculosis cases and 98% tuberculosis deaths are contributed&#13;
by developing countries.&#13;
India accounts for nearly one third of the global burden of tuberculosis. Around 2.0 million&#13;
people are diagnosed to be suffering from tuberculosis every year.1 Tuberculosis kills more&#13;
adults in India than any other infectious diseases. More than 1000 people a day i.e one every&#13;
minutes die of tuberculosis. Evaluation of the implementation of Revised National Tuberculosis&#13;
Control Programme in the three Primary Health Centres of Belgaum District.&#13;
A Longitudinal study, data collected by personal interview in the field, all cases diagnosed for&#13;
tuberculosis by the Medical Officers of three Primary Health Centers from November 1st 2004&#13;
to April 30th 2005.&#13;
In the present study 48% were males, 52% were females, more than 50% of patients were in the&#13;
age group of 20-39 years and majority were Hindus(84%). majority of patients were&#13;
Housewives i.e.37.7% followed by farmers i.e. 23.2% and labours 16%. Out of these 69 cases&#13;
43.5% belonged to category I, 18.8% category II and 37.7% category III. The overall average&#13;
sputum referral in six months was 3.8% and positivity was 11.5%. At the end of Intensive&#13;
phase out of 31 sputum positive patients, 77% showed sputum conversion to negativity, 13%&#13;
remained positive and 18% were not available for sputum examination. At the end of&#13;
continuation phase whose sputum was positive initially 68% were sputum negative and 32%&#13;
were not available. Overall treatment outcome cured were 30.4%, completed the treatment&#13;
40.6%, defaulted 8.7%, died 16% and transferred out 4.3%.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Tuberculosis</kwd><kwd> implementation of RNTCP</kwd><kwd> primary health care</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
