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Under the National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2020-25, systematic screening of high-risk groups through outreach and community-based approaches using digital X-rays and rapid and more sensitive diagnostic tools is planned via:

 

  1. Active Case Finding (ACF) activity in vulnerable groups: This is a focus over the next five years.
    • ACF to be conducted in campaign mode in three rounds during the year.
    • Large scale Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) through print and electronic mass media and local channels about the campaign.
    • The prioritization of vulnerable groups for screening and ACF is shown in the table below.
  2. Intensified Case Finding (ICF): A systematic ICF among key populations attending any of the specialised clinics like Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTC), ante-natal clinic, diabetic care clinic, de-addiction centres, etc., will enhance the early case finding and linkage to care. 
  3. Sensitization of the political and administrative leadership in the states.
  4. Identification and mapping of high risk/ vulnerable populations in local areas.

Table: Prioritization of Vulnerable Groups and Key Populations for ACF and Screening; Source: National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Elimination 2020–2025, p.131

PRIORITY

URBAN AREAS

RURAL AREAS

TRIBAL AREAS

1

Slum

Difficult-to-reach villages

Difficult-to-reach villages and hamlets

2

Prison inmates

Mine workers

Villages with known

higher case load

3

Old age homes

Stone crusher workers

Tribal school hostels

4

Construction site workers

Population groups with high malnutrition

Areas with high malnutrition

5

Refugee camps

National Aids Control Organization (NACO)/ State AIDs Prevention and Control SOcieties (SACS) identified high-risk group for HIV

Villages seeking care from traditional healers

6

Night shelters

Weaving and glass industrial workers

Tribal areas with little ventilated huts

7

NACO/SACS

identified high-risk group for HIV

 

Cotton mill workers

 

8

Homeless

Unorganized labour

  

9

Street children

Tea garden workers

  

10

Orphanages

Villages largely seeking care from traditional healers

  

11

Homes for the destitute

 

  

12

Asylums

    

 

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