Dr.Vijayashree Yellappa, Faculty at IPH presented a study at 46th World Conference on Lung Health at Cape Town
( 2nd December – 6th December).
Title of the presentation: Retail Private Pharmacist’s referral practices and perceptions to collaborate with National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP): Qualitative Study, South India.
The study findings were part of a larger study conducted for World Bank in 2013 in Karnataka, India, to evaluate the Results based financing
Retail Private Pharmacist’s (RPP) knowledge and perceptions to collaborate with National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP): Qualitative Study, South India
Vijayashree Yellappa, Hima Bindu, Neethi V Rao, Devadasan Narayanan
Background: In India, RPPs are often first and repeated point of contact for patients. NTP is involving RPPs through Indian Pharmaceutical Association by training them to identify and refer chest symptomatics to NTP for TB diagnosis. We conducted this study to assess RPP’s (i) knowledge and referral practices (ii) stocking and dispensing of TB drugs (iii) kickbacks to providers.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 RPPs in Bangalore (urban=19) and Tumkur district (rural=21) during 2013 from Karnataka, India. RPPs were randomly selected from the register maintained with district drug controller.
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