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…
Category: TB notification
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,…
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…
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…
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…
India’s tuberculosis challenge
Published in The Hindu on October 21, 2012 Tuberculosis was declared a global health emergency in 1993, but it has been growing unchecked. Today, TB is causing millions of deaths…
Editorial: No room for haste
Published in The Hindu on October 2, 2012 The past year has witnessed unprecedented official efforts to rein in the growing tuberculosis epidemic. In 2011 alone, 1.2 million new TB…
Guidelines for tuberculosis notification sent out
Published in The Hindu on September 27, 2012 The Central TB Division has set the ball in motion by setting out guidelines on how to notify TB cases. The notification…
