Factors Associated with Delays in Treatment Initiation after Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Two Districts of India

• Durba Paul ,

  * E-mail: pauld@rntcp.org

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

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• Arundhathi Busireddy,

  Affiliation District TB Office, Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh, India

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• Sharath Burugina Nagaraja,

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

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• Srinath Satyanarayana,

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

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• Puneet Kumar Dewan,

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

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• Sreenivas Achutan Nair,

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

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• Silajit Sarkar,

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

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• Quazi Toufique Ahmed,

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

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• Shakuntala Sarkar,

  Affiliation District TB Center, Bardhaman, West Bengal, India

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• Sreenivas Rao Motta Shamrao,

  Affiliation Directorate of Health Services, State TB Office, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India

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• Anthony David Harries,

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

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• John Ethan Oeltmann

  Affiliation Division of TB Elimination, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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