National Tuberculosis Institute

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Government of India

WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis Research and Training 
National Tuberculosis Institute

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Government of India

WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis Research and Training 

Ongoing/Future Research

S.No.HeadingsDescription
1.TitleDLSS: Sentinel Surveillance for Tuberculosis burden in India 2023-2024” under the project strengthening and monitoring of Tuberculosis Elimination in India
Primary ObjectivesTo develop national curve TB fitting mathematical model for incidence, estimation on annual basis using community-based sentinel survey.
Secondary Objectives1. To monitor national trends of TB prevalence, TB infection, health seeking behavior, Prevalence to Notification ratio at national level.
2. To estimate the prevalence of TB infection in India.
3. To monitor the tuberculosis mortality rate at the National Level in India among the surveyed population using verbal autopsy.
4. To explore the feasibility of using artificial intelligence tools for improvement of existing AI tools in sentinel survey.
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