Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of South Gujarat
Context/Background: The COVID-19 pandemic affected the health care services worldwide, with the target of END TB 2025; it was important to make sure that the TB notification and linkage services were not hampered. The current study aims to document the overall impact of COVID-19 on TB notification a...
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2024-11-01
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| author | Meera Maniya Shashank Patel Rahul Damor Monank Patel |
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| description | Context/Background:
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the health care services worldwide, with the target of END TB 2025; it was important to make sure that the TB notification and linkage services were not hampered. The current study aims to document the overall impact of COVID-19 on TB notification and treatment services.
Aims/Objectives:
To document the impact of COVID-19 on notification and comparison of their outcome between pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 era.
Methodology:
Programmatic data of 9893 notified TB cases reported from Surat rural between 2019 and 2021 were collected from Nikshay portal through DTO Surat. Detailed comparison of pre- and COVID-19 era was performed using stratified analysis.
Results:
There was a significant (P = 0.02) 29% decline in cases reported in 2020 as compared to the cases reported in the previous year. The impact of COVID-19 was also seen on mortality of the reported cases (18% increase). The overall proportion of treatment failure was increased (28%), whereas difference of 20% was seen in cases where treatment regimen was required to be changed.
Conclusions:
Despite the overall impact of COVID-19 on TB services (2020), the health department has proactively countered and bounce back in 2021 with an overall increase in notification and treatment services. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b43df71ac35046caad07fc68de10065e2025-08-20T01:59:16ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care2249-48632278-71352024-11-0113114861486510.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_428_24Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of South GujaratMeera ManiyaShashank PatelRahul DamorMonank PatelContext/Background: The COVID-19 pandemic affected the health care services worldwide, with the target of END TB 2025; it was important to make sure that the TB notification and linkage services were not hampered. The current study aims to document the overall impact of COVID-19 on TB notification and treatment services. Aims/Objectives: To document the impact of COVID-19 on notification and comparison of their outcome between pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 era. Methodology: Programmatic data of 9893 notified TB cases reported from Surat rural between 2019 and 2021 were collected from Nikshay portal through DTO Surat. Detailed comparison of pre- and COVID-19 era was performed using stratified analysis. Results: There was a significant (P = 0.02) 29% decline in cases reported in 2020 as compared to the cases reported in the previous year. The impact of COVID-19 was also seen on mortality of the reported cases (18% increase). The overall proportion of treatment failure was increased (28%), whereas difference of 20% was seen in cases where treatment regimen was required to be changed. Conclusions: Despite the overall impact of COVID-19 on TB services (2020), the health department has proactively countered and bounce back in 2021 with an overall increase in notification and treatment services.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_428_24covid-19nikshaynotificationtuberculosis |
| spellingShingle | Meera Maniya Shashank Patel Rahul Damor Monank Patel Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of South Gujarat Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care covid-19 nikshay notification tuberculosis |
| title | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of South Gujarat |
| title_full | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of South Gujarat |
| title_fullStr | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of South Gujarat |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of South Gujarat |
| title_short | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of South Gujarat |
| title_sort | impact of covid 19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of south gujarat |
| topic | covid-19 nikshay notification tuberculosis |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_428_24 |
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