TB news from India

The Indian Express: Early detection, prompt treatment and capturing the ‘missing’ are three new ways to end TB
TB remains the top infectious killer, both globally and in India. Ending TB globally cannot be achieved unless India makes substantial progress in this direction.

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Business Standard: India saw 211 tuberculosis cases per 1,00,000 population in 2016: WHO

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Mumbai Live: 40 per cent of TB cases are from Mumbai: Health Ministry report
Every year about 1 lakh 75 thousand TB cases are reported in the state and most cases appear in government hospitals.

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The Hitavada: 45% rise of drug-resistant TB cases in Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh is home of 54000 TB patients, out of them 4503 cases are of drug-resistant TB.

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Mid-Day.com: Mumbai-based research institute on the brink of finding new technology for TB diagnosis
Mumbai-based Haffkine Institute is now in the final stages of testing a new protocol that will deliver the results within an hour.

-- See also: BioSpectrum: Haffkine Institute to develop efficient TB diagnostic kit

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News18.com: How the WHO list for essential diagnostics could boost India's primary health care
For India, the list will prove a crucial stepping stone for its own national Essential Diagnostics List, the process to draft which is ongoing.