Engaging Informal Private Health Care Providers for TB Case Detection: Experiences from RIPEND Project in India

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="1"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">During sensitization<br/>(i) Availability of informal providers in a timely manner for group sensitization programs<br/>(ii) Incompatible smart phones of informal providers to support the project mobile application</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">During referral activities<br/>(i) Inefficient usage of mobile application for referral activities<br/>(ii) Frequently deleting the mobile application from their phones<br/>(iii) Referring the symptomatic to private hospitals<br/>(iv) Referring of symptomatic with less than one-week cough to sputum smear microscopy<br/>(v) Inadequate emphasis of chest x-ray on patients when smear results are negative and symptoms are present</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Financial incentives<br/>(i) The providers perceived the incentive provided as low<br/>(ii) Delays in disbursement of funds to the providers bank accounts</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="1"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Key challenges encountered by the RIPENED project staff.</div>

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Table 3: Engaging Informal Private Health Care Providers for TB Case Detection: Experiences from RIPEND Project in India 