TB news from India

• NPR: Why does India lead the world in deaths from TB?

• Nature Microbiology: TB patients endure tortuous pathways and broken care cascades 

Patient pathways analyses and care cascade analyses from several countries show that TB care is far from patient-centric.

• The Hindu: The war on TB

India registers a few successes but the surveillance systems remain inadequate.

• NDTV: 30 million TB patients screened in remote areas: JP Nadda

• The Economic Times: India's dependency on charitable program for MDR-TB drugs not helping, doctors say

• Medical Dialogues: Anti-TB drugs to be made available for patients seeking treatment in private sector

• Livemint: India’s first health atlas mirror’s a health emergency

• THread: Tuberculosis is harsh enough without all the stigma