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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), India. OBJECTIVE: To study the treatment outcomes in patients treated under RNTCP c hence sputum conversion rate was 91.84% in present study. We found that233newsputum smear positive cases out of which 187 were cured. Thus the cure rate was 80.2%.Out of which 506 smear negative and extra pulmonary patients 462 completed treatment hence treatment completion rate was 91.30%. Out of 233 new smear sputum positive cases, 23 died thus death rate was 9.8%, 5 patients were treatment failure thus the failure rate was 2.1 %. 12 patients defaulted the treatment thus defaulted rate was5.15%.Due to tuberculosis 22 (2.7%) patients died, 27 (3.3%) due to HIV, 17 (2.1%) defaulted due to migration, 5 (0.6%) defaulted due to addiction of alcohol, 3 (0.4%) defaulted due to not relief from symptoms, 1 (0.1%) defaulted due to adverse reaction.16 (2%) failed in due to initial heavy bacillary load. CONCLUSION: It is observed that our regimens produced decline in failure rate, default rate was near expected, death rate was little more. As cure rate was very close to RNTCP objectives, reason might be good case holding in the study. The present study revealed that deaths due to pulmonary tuberculosis even after treatment& HIV renders individuals more susceptible to death as in these study 27 deaths are due to HIV. Some people migrate to their native place or for their work and become defaulted. Default was attributed to migration to their native places in this study. Majority of cases of failure might be due to initial heavy bacillary load.