Role of Health Volunteers in TB Case Finding

• Community Health Volunteers play a significant role in increasing awareness regarding the burden of TB and the importance of preventing it and regularly screening the population.
• Community Health Volunteers should use the various platforms in the communities, such as the PRI meetings, school meetings etc., for spreading the information on TB. Using such media, the Community Health Volunteers should focus on building community awareness to improve the patients' health-seeking behaviour.

• Community Health Volunteers should screen the vulnerable population for Tuberculosis during the Active Case Finding Campaign. Persons with presumed TB should be identified then be referred for testing, post which, if diagnosed with TB, should be initiated on treatment.
• Community Health Volunteers should also ensure that those TB patients initiated on treatment adhere to the treatment.
• Community Health Volunteers should also record the population screened; sputum examined cases, diagnosed cases and patients initiated on treatment.
• Community Health Volunteers should also confirm the patient's address in their respective locality for correct patient identification.

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