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Category: TB notification

Posted on October 17, 2020October 17, 2020

Pandemic causes 25% dip in TB notifications in India

While India accounts for 26% of TB cases in the world, the TB notifications during the period January-June 2020 in India reduced by 25% compared to the same period in…

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Posted on March 21, 2019March 21, 2019

Majority of MDR-TB cases in India due to direct transmission: Lancet

While India has set a highly ambitious target of “eliminating TB by 2025”, modelling studies published today say incidence and mortality will reduce by just 57% and 72% respectively by…

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Posted on November 2, 2017November 2, 2017

A glimmer of hope as India’s war on TB gets more funding

There is a glimmer of hope with India registering a slight drop in the number of new tuberculosis cases and TB deaths in 2016 compared with 2015. From an estimated…

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Posted on March 19, 2017March 19, 2017

Without a magic wand, India cannot eliminate TB by 2025

At the end of 50 years of tuberculosis control activities, the disease remains a major health challenge in India. As per new estimates, the number of new cases every year…

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Posted on August 25, 2016August 25, 2016

Indian private sector bears 2-3 times higher TB burden than estimated

A study has found that in 2014 there were 2.2 million TB patients treated in India’s private sector alone. This is 2-3 times higher than current estimates. In all probability,…

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Posted on January 18, 2016June 11, 2016

TB treatment programme in India may be generating more MDR cases

  The Joint Monitoring Mission 2015 has come down heavily on the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for their inability to…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

One million TB cases in children annually

One million children aged below 15 years are annually diseased with tuberculosis across the world, notes a study published a few days ago in The Lancet . The new estimates…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

Editorial: Missing TB cases in India

Although tuberculosis killed 1.3 million people across the globe in 2012 and nearly 8.6 million developed the disease, the world is on track to reach some important targets of the…

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