Effect of Integrating Traditional Tuberculosis Care With Modern Health Care on Case Detection

The intervention arm includes training for traditional and modern care providers, patient education, screening, and referring to TB suspected cases plus the usual care. The training will be provided three times which will be delivered every three months. In the first round, traditional practitioners will be trained for 5 days. In this round, the training will be also delivered to modern health care providers on how to communicate and work with traditional care providers for 2-day. Then, a one-day interactive discussion session will be prepared for both traditional and modern care providers. In the second round and third rounds, one-day training will be carried out at three and six months. TB suspected cases at traditional foster and holy water and patients who need spiritual support from health care providers will be screened every case in every day for one year. Referring to TB suspected cases will also apply for every case every day for one year