100-Day TB Elimination Campaign: How ASHA workers fighting to rid tuberculosis of social stigmaASHA workers like Ranjana Chaudhary are tackling social stigma about tuberculosis in India's rural regions through the 100-Day Intensified ...
09 Mar, 2025, 01.45 PM IST
Through collective spirit, we'll keep working towards TB-free India: PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged India's dedicated efforts leading to a significant decline in TB incidence. Health Minister J P N...
03 Nov, 2024, 03.58 PM IST
India's efforts to eradicate TB by 2025 role model for world: Union minister Jitendra Singh"Biotechnology is going to play a huge part in the integrated holistic healthcare approach towards the elimination of tuberculosis," Jitend...
17 Sep, 2023, 04.02 PM IST
Clinical trials of new BCG vaccine for TB to start soon, says former CSIR chiefAccording to the India TB Report 2022, the number of 'incident TB patients' (new and relapse cases) notified during 2021 stood at 19.3 lakh...
06 Jan, 2023, 04.53 PM IST
WHO South-East Asia Region ministers to deliberate on priority issues next weekThe WHO statement said, that it will also review the progress made on other resolutions adopted by the previously led regional committee se...
02 Sep, 2022, 11.41 AM IST
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 ...
24 Mar, 2022, 04.24 PM IST
World Tuberculosis Day: Mansukh Mandaviya reaffirms commitment to make India TB-free by 2025"Tuberculosis is a preventable & treatable disease. On World TB Day, we reaffirm commitment to make India TB-free by 2025 by ensuring acces...
24 Mar, 2022, 11.25 AM IST
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...
22 Jul, 2021, 10.28 AM IST
View: Covid set back our fight against TB, but its lessons are strengthening TB management nowIn every adversity lies an opportunity, and this pandemic has provided us with one to augment TB elimination efforts by strengthening our p...
24 Mar, 2021, 11.09 AM IST
Pandemic has underlined importance of a quality healthcare system for all: President KovindIn his message on the eve of World Tuberculosis Day, which is observed every year on March 24, Kovind said that the entire National TB Elim...
23 Mar, 2021, 06.23 PM IST
View: Covid should set the stage for India’s drive against more common and fatal diseasesThe emergence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB strain is especially concerning, as it is resistant to the two most effective anti-TB drugs ...
25 Jan, 2021, 11.16 PM IST
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...
31 Oct, 2019, 03.37 PM IST
Govt employing multi-sectoral, community led approach to eliminate TB by 2025: VardhanThe Centre has also increased allocation of funds for the TB programme by four-folds, he said after releasing the 'India TB Report 2019'.
25 Sep, 2019, 08.50 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi launches campaign to eradicate TB from India by 2025The prime minister launched the TB-free India Campaign to take the activities under the National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination forward ...
13 Mar, 2018, 03.47 PM IST
WHO gears up to help India eliminate tuberculosis by 2025World Health Organisation has called on countries in South- East Asia Region to build on recent momentum aimed at ending TB by 2030.
11 Sep, 2017, 07.10 PM IST
Tuberculosis rate going down, but not fast enough to meet WHO target"Community support groups/NGOs can be effectively used to create awareness and both WHO and government of India should pursue these collabo...
11 Jan, 2015, 11.12 AM IST
Harsh Vardhan announces TB-Mission 2020Vardhan was speaking at WHO's Global TB Symposium titled 'Moving out of the box to end global TB epidemic: with post-2015 strategy' here.
28 Oct, 2014, 10.44 PM IST