Prime Minister Modi launched a 100-day TB elimination campaign across 347 high-burden districts in India. The campaign emphasizes enhanced ...

India is battling a high tuberculosis burden, accounting for 26% of global cases and deaths in 2023. The National TB Elimination Programme ...

WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Saima Wazed highlighted the alarming prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes in the region, with over ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched various initiatives including TB-free panchayats, implementing a shorter TB Preventive Treatment (TPT...

Of the total TB patients, 3 per cent are drug sensitive and 14 per cent drug resistant in Mumbai. Annually, around 4,000 to 5,000 drug resi...

In every adversity lies an opportunity, and this pandemic has provided us with one to augment TB elimination efforts by strengthening our p...

The emergence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB strain is especially concerning, as it is resistant to the two most effective anti-TB drugs ...

"We have done our best in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our recovery rate is the highest in the world whereas the fatali...

As per mathematical models, each month of lockdown in India could cause an additional 40,685 deaths between 2020 and 2025 due to TB. India ...

As the world focuses on the pandemic, experts fear losing ground in the long fight against other infectious diseases like AIDS, tuberculosi...

Tuberculosis is among one of the biggest risks in India, and kills 1.5 mn people every year.

Presenting the Budget for 2020-21, Sitharaman proposed to expand Jan Aushadhi Kendras to all districts of the country to provide medicines ...

The Centre has also increased allocation of funds for the TB programme by four-folds, he said after releasing the 'India TB Report 2019'.

The latest list includes Ayushman Bharat’s free healthcare coverage for all sanitation workers and families, Gandhi busts in 54 countries, ...

The prime minister launched the TB-free India Campaign to take the activities under the National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination forward ...

The year also saw conduct of a single and uniform entrance examination for admissions to virtually all government and private medical colle...

"Community support groups/NGOs can be effectively used to create awareness and both WHO and government of India should pursue these collabo...