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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 ...- Study suggests nutrition support can help prevent TB related deaths in IndiaA monthly food basket with adequate protein and multivitamins can reduce new tuberculosis cases by nearly half among family members of TB p...
- India has seen reduction in TB incidence: MandaviyaIndia has achieved a 13% reduction in TB incidence and a 15% reduction in mortality rate from 2015 to 2022, surpassing global reduction rat...
- 70 pc of 2.7 lakh TB patients adopted by UP government cured, living healthy life: CM Yogi AdityanathDuring inauguration of the three-day seminar, the chief minister said the country is moving at a rapid pace towards fulfilling PM Modi's vi...
- 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...
- Mobile application comes in handy for healthcare workers as India chases target to reduce tuberculosis burden by 2025As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), the total number of incident TB patients (new and relapse) in 2021 in India was 19,33,381, a 19...
- Nearly 60,000 TB cases recorded in Mumbai in 2021; marginal decline from pre-COVID daysOf 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...
- Tata Trusts' IHF backs startup that built low cost test to determine drug resistant TBHealSeq is incubated at the India Institute of Science (IISc) innovation – Bangalore in March 2020. The start-up works on biomarker discove...
- TB detection, treatment suffer amid lockdownThis is despite the Union health ministry sending a directive to states to not stop TB elimination programme in the country, warning that p...
- USFDA okays new antibiotic for highly drug-resistant tuberculosisPretomanid, a new chemical entity, was under development since 2002 by the TB Alliance.
- World TB Day: Over 25% TB patients in India are resistant to at least one anti-TB drug"High rates of treatment failure and deaths are associated with fluoroquinolone resistance in the Indian cohort of MDR-TB patients," stated...
- Battle for access to tuberculosis medicine reaches HC"Patients need to be constantly monitored, which is why these centres are currently administering the drug only to residents of these six s...
- No. of India's TB patients may be double the estimate: StudyWhile it was assumed that India's annual TB cases stands at 2.2 million a year, the study pegs this number at over 3.8 million in 2014.
- 4 of 6 drugs ineffective in 70% of deadly TB cases, Mumbai doctors sayFour of the six drugs given to patients with MDR-TB under the RNTCP could be ineffective in nearly 70% of patients, a study by Mumbai's Hin...
- Government launches new medicine to treat drug resistant TBAhead of World Tuberculosis Day on March 24, government today launched Bedaquiline, a new class of anti-tuberculosis medicine discovered to...
- 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...
- Unregulated diagnostic centres of TB a challenge: Experts"Unregulated diagnosis in private sector (hospitals) and unqualified doctors prescribing drugs still pose a big challenge to control TB."
- 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 inks USD 100 mn agreement with World Bank for treatment of TB"The project will contribute to scaling up free-of-charge MDR TB services, helping many more families avoid death and impoverishment.
- TB patients in India: WHO stresses on need to improve treatment, but heath ministry says all fineThe WHO reckons India needs to improve diagnosis and treatment of patients to shrug off the lethal distinction of being the world's TB capi...
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