Abstract
A group of TB experts with vast clinical and epidemiological experience were drawn from a pool of doctors, epidemiologists and scientists participating in NATCON 2020 Conference in a closed-door session to discuss, highlight, and prioritize key resolutions that are most pertinent at present to eliminate TB from India and other developing countries in the Covid and post-COVID era. These Scientific experts were non-industry persons who met on 17th December, 2020 and used the prevailing scientific literature along with 2019 Joint Monitoring Mission document as a starting point of the discussion on this specific topic to build an agreement upon the resolutions. After the meeting on the virtual platform, all the attending doctors gave a set of recommendations on rebuilding TB Elimination programme in the Covid and Post-Covid era. Focused scientific roundtable discussion on rebuilding TB Elimination Post-Covid. Develop actionable recommendations for the scientific community and the government leadership to consider in moving forward. To prioritize the recommendations in the categories of Build-Prevent-Detect-Treat.
Keywords: Challenges; Covid; Elimination; Opportunities; Post-Covid; TB.
【저자키워드】 Elimination, COVID, Post-COVID, challenges, Opportunities, TB., 【초록키워드】 India, Elimination, monitoring, epidemiological, Scientific community, platform, starting point, Government, Topic, pool, categories, meeting, epidemiologists, epidemiologist, recommendation, country, Conference, highlight, category, build, 【제목키워드】 White paper,