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Posted on March 13, 2018March 14, 2018

ICMR wins the 2017 Kochon Prize for TB research

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has won the Stop TB Kochon Prize for excellence in TB research and development. The $65,000 Prize is awarded annually by Stop TB Partnership to individuals and/or…

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Posted on January 26, 2016June 11, 2016

India sets an example in subsidised TB diagnosis

There is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy TB scenario in India. Of the 12 high-burden countries where the private sector is a major player in providing health care,…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

A new test promises better diagnosis of TB in children

With bacteriological diagnosis of TB (via sputum samples) in children, particularly in those aged below five years, being riddled with problems, scientists are looking at alternative methods that do not…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

IPAQT: subsidised Xpert TB test in private labs gets popular

The number of labs/private hospitals in the country offering the WHO-approved tests like GeneXpert, Line Probe Assay (LPA) for diagnosing TB disease at a subsidised price has reached 54. There…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

‘Very few children in India are diagnosed and treated for MDR-TB’

  “A child with TB [is] as likely as an adult with TB to have MDR-TB [multi-drug resistant TB],” notes the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2013. that was released last…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

TB: how many young children are wrongly diagnosed as disease-free?

India’s Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) estimates that children comprise about 12 per cent of the total TB caseload in the country. But in all probability, 12 per cent…

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