India has poured the highest amount of funds into research to eliminate TB among BRICS nations, a study has found.

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has handed over the charge of the country's tuberculosis control programme to the head of HIV/AIDS control organisation.

May 20, 2016 - A group of tuberculosis patients, protesting outside the Union health ministry in Delhi's searing mid-May heat, brought attention to the problem of India's outdated tuberculosis treatment, and forced the ministry officials to give assurance to provide patients with the fixed-dose combination (FDCs) medicines they urgently need.