About the Authors

Sharath Burugina Nagaraja

sharathb@rntcp.org

Affiliations Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization, New Delhi, India, Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Ajay M. V. Kumar

Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), South East Asia Region, New Delhi, India

Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva

Affiliation Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Ranjani Ramachandran

Affiliation Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization, New Delhi, India

Srinath Satyanarayana

Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), South East Asia Region, New Delhi, India

Avi Bansal

Affiliations Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization, New Delhi, India, Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Malik Parmar

Affiliations Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization, New Delhi, India, Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Sarabjit Chadha

Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), South East Asia Region, New Delhi, India

Sreenivas Nair

Affiliation Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization, New Delhi, India

Ashok Kumar

Affiliation Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Sven Gudmund Hinderaker

Affiliation Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Mary Edginton

Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), Paris, France

Puneet K. Dewan

Affiliation Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBN AMVK RR PD KSS AK. Performed the experiments: SBN AMVK RR PD KSS SS MP AB SC AK SN PD. Analyzed the data: SBN AMVK PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBN AMVK PD RR SGH ME SS. Wrote the paper: SBN AMVK PD SS SC RR SGH ME RR AK.