HIV Testing among Patients with Presumptive Tuberculosis: How Do We Implement in a Routine Programmatic Setting? Results of a Large Operational Research from India

• Ajay MV Kumar ,

  * E-mail: akumar@theunion.org

  Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

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• Devesh Gupta,

  Affiliation Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• Ashok Kumar,

  Affiliations Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India, National AIDS Control Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• R. S. Gupta,

  Affiliations Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India, National AIDS Control Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• Avinash Kanchar,

  Affiliations National AIDS Control Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Raghuram Rao,

  Affiliation National AIDS Control Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• Suresh Shastri,

  Affiliation State TB Cell, Directorate of Health Services, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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• MD Suryakanth,

  Affiliation State TB Cell, Directorate of Health Services, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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• Chethana Rangaraju,

  Affiliation Karnataka State AIDS prevention and control Society, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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• Balaji Naik,

  Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

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• Deepak K. Guddemane,

  Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

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• Prashant Bhat,

  Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

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• Achuthan Sreenivas Nair,

  Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

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• Anthony David Harries,

  Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Puneet Dewan

  Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, New Delhi, India

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