• 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.
