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World TB Day: PM Modi launches multiple initiatives to eradicate tuberculosisPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched various initiatives including TB-free panchayats, implementing a shorter TB Preventive Treatment (TPT...
India in advanced stage to deliver on global plan for new TB vaccine by 2025: Mansukh MandaviyaTuberculosis caused 1.6 million deaths globally in 2021, making it the world's leading cause of death from infectious disease, before COVID...
TB Alliance in talks with government over use of new shorter BPaL RegimenIndia has the world's highest TB burden-- 2.6 million active cases and close to 450,000 deaths each year from the infectious bacterial dise...
360-degree holistic approach cornerstone of TB elimination in India: Health Minister MandaviyaNoting the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the minister said, "For more than two years, we have been facing the global pandemic ...
BPaL regimen can cut time for treatment of drug-resistant TBBPaL is a six-month, alloral, three-drug regimen that is used to treat people with highly drug-resistant forms of TB. It consists of the TB...
Masks for Covid-19 pandemic may end up eliminating tuberculosis by 2025 target“If masks become routine in India, just like they are in Japan, then we could well meet our target of eliminating TB by 2025,” said pulmono...
Mylan gets DCGI nod for anti-tuberculosis drug Pretomanid for conditional accessThe Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved Pretomanid for conditional access under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Prog...
Mylan, TB Alliance seeks clinical trial waiver for Pretomanid drugPretomanid, a new oral treatment is a shorter more convenient option for people with extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB. The dossier for g...
Sanofi inks pact with Unitaid; to reduce TB drug Rifapentine price by 70%In a landmark development, global biopharmaceutical company Sanofi will lower the price of Rifapentine, a critically important drug used to...
GSK's tuberculosis vaccine shows promising resultsThe new vaccine, known as M72/AS01E, was tested at 11 sites in Kenya, South Africa and Zambia in adults whose blood tests showed they had l...
Driving innovation: Global fund fosters partnership between India & UK to combat health challengesThe Global Fund was created in 2002. With public donors including the USA, UK, and private donors such as the Gates Foundation, it has used...
Private sector deserts war on Tuberculosis, funding down 33% since 2011Multi-drug resistant TB is rapidly spreading with 450,000-odd new cases reported in 2012 by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
TB a national emergency: Health Minister Harsh VardhanVardhan said that an email repository will be built up for establishing connectivity between govt & all doctors in the country to help figh...
Quick evaluation key to fighting TB in India: StudyApproximately 8.6 million people worldwide develop active TB each year. Twenty-five per cent of all diagnosed TB patients are in India.
- India should join global anti-TB plan: WB study
Countries like India and China, with high numbers of TB cases could gain more from the money they spend on diagnosis and treatment of the d...
- India to fight AIDS, TB with WB loan
- Eli Lilly & co announces partnership to fight MDR-TB
Eli Lilly and Company has announced plans to invest an additional $50 million in a global partnership to fight Multi-Drug Resistant Tubercu...