Items tagged with TB programs

What is India’s plan to eliminate TB? (post)

What is it?

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 has risen to 2.8 million and mortality is put at 4,80,000 each year. These figures may go up when the national TB prevalence survey is undertaken in 2017-18. Against this backdrop, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in its national strategic plan for tuberculosis elimination (2017-2025), has set a highly ambitious goal of “achieving a rapid decline in burden of TB, morbidity and mortality while working towards elimination of TB by 2025.”

In India, eliminating TB isn't just a health issue — it's an economic one (post)

Last month, India’s finance minister announced the government’s plan to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025 during the unveiling of the country’s Union Budget for 2017-2018. This is a welcome move: While ridding people of the burden of any disease is a worthy goal by itself, TB elimination provides perhaps one of the strongest economic cases for public intervention.

Cambodia: What happens when health care is scarce and TB rates are high (post)

TB is now the leading cause of death by an infectious disease, globally, and Cambodia has among the highest rates in the world, with 380 people estimated to be infected per 100,000 in the population in 2015.

Reducing global tuberculosis deaths—time for India to step up (post)

In a comment published in The Lancet Madhukar Pai, Natasha Correa, Nerges Mistry and Prabhat Jha comment on the factors contributing to India's enormous TB death toll and what needs to be done.

Sustaining tuberculosis decline in the UK (post)

In a comment published in The Lancet Bilaal Adam, Paul Cosford, Sarah Anderson and Ibrahim Abubakar comment on the sustained action that is needed to maintain the recent gains in TB control in the UK.

TB in India is a collective problem screaming to be addressed (post)

TED EX has released India’s first Ted Talk on TB titled “Tuberculosis: India’s Ticking Time Bomb” by Zarir F Udwadia, a leading chest physician from Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai.

TAC and SECTION27: We cannot endorse the HIV and TB plan in its current form (post)

Breaking down walls in Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric (post)

Why India should use private pharmacies in its war on TB (post)

India has over 850,000 private pharmacies or chemists nationwide; yet, only 9% of them – not enough to have a larger public-health impact – have been engaged in efforts to control TB.

TB-Free India Summit rallies support for ending TB by 2025 (post)

The TB-Free India Summit on 7 and 8 April received a message of support from the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, saying: