Foreward
This book is a collection of reports from various parts of Asia that address the problem faced by TB control programmes; ‘hard-to-reach' groups that have little motivation for seeking treatment, ensuring full treatment among mobile population groups, tackling the disease in overcrowded refugee camps, prisons and urban slums, developing programmes for people scattered by conflicts, overcoming inherent gender-bias and empowering women for active work in communities, responding to the new menace of multi-drug resistant form of the disease, and TB among children.

This book is a collaborative effort between Panos South Asia and the World Health Organization (WHO). According to Dr. Jai Narain, of the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, "this book provides considerable insight into crucial issues relating to TB and its association with HIV. Special efforts have been made by the editors to choose a wide variety of issues from these countries. Individual authors have very graphically portrayed the complex social,cultural, and emotional dynamics of people's lives when affected by TB in various settings in Asia. They also describe many pragmatic responses that show the way out for many of those affected.

Contents

• Preface (WHO)
• Introduction
  TB in South and South East Asia
• Reaching the Marginalised
  Finding and motivating ‘hard to reach' groups in Nepal
• Counting on Women
  Social mobilisation for TB control in Bangladesh
• Trucker's Tale
  Bringing home TB in Tamil Nadu, India
• Double Trouble
  Conflicts hamper control programmes in Indonesia
• Reservoirs of TB bacteria?
  TB in the Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal
• The Biased Killer
  Gender discrimination around the coalfields of Dhanbad, India
• No Time for Complacency
  HIV threatens TB control in Sri Lanka
• Fringe Benefits for Navi Mumbai
  NGO-Government coalition tackles TB in urban India
• Unwelcome Comeback
  TB returns to Thailand
• Killing the Future
  TB among children in South Asia
• Appendices
  SAARC TB Data
  WHO 2002 Report – Data on 22 high-burden countries 162-163Definitions
  Drug Resistant TB
  Contributors' profiles

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