3 Review(s)

WHATs NEW Thoroughly revised and updated with recent advances. Chapter on Communicable Diseases, now contains revised case definitions of tuberculosis and their treatment outcomes; benefits of directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS); Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) laboratory network; childhood tuberculosis; global multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) crisis; antiretroviral treatment in HIV; revised WHO clinical staging of HIV disease in infants and children; cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV-related infections among children, adolescents and adults; prevention of parent-to-child transmission of HIV; revised guidelines for postexposure prophylaxis for HIV; epidemiology of hepatitis C; commitment of measles elimination by 2020; maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination; diagnosis and treatment of malaria; malaria control strategies; malaria vaccine; dengue vaccine; revised National and Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) immunization schedule. Chapter on Preventive Obstetrics and Pediatrics, now contains revised guidelines on antenatal care; National Health Mission with all its components such as Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Adolescent (RMNCH+A) strategy India, Newborn Action Plan, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK), Navajatha Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram, Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram, Rogi Kalyan Samiti, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and new scheme of National Urban Health Mission. Other minor topics are National Family Planning Indemnity Scheme and Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Technique Act, 1994.