US President Donald Trump's executive order to suspend USAID programs may impact health initiatives in India, specifically targeting TB, HI...

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

India 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...

Noting the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the minister said, "For more than two years, we have been facing the global pandemic ...

India carries the highest burden of TB with about 2.69 mn cases in 2018. About 40% of the country’s population is estimated to have latent ...

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

Recently, Johnson & Johnson had announced to provide an additional 10,000 courses of tuberculosis drug bedaquiline (BDQ) to the Indian gove...

In its last-issued guidance in October 2016, the WHO had restricted usage to the breakthrough drug owing to concerns around its effect on t...

Union Health Minister J P Nadda, in a written reply, said that the states are being prepared to monitor the treatment of patients with Beda...

"Patients need to be constantly monitored, which is why these centres are currently administering the drug only to residents of these six s...

Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day on March 24, government today launched Bedaquiline, a new class of anti-tuberculosis medicine discovered to...

A ‘miracle drug’ to battle multi-drug resistant tuberculosis MDR-TB, and extensively-drug resistant TB (XDR-TB), will be rolled out on Mond...

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

The number of missed cases is defined as the difference between the estimated number of incident cases and notified (new and relapse) cases...

India accounts for nearly one-fourth of global incidence of TB and public health officials here are working on finding a cure for drug-resi...

The WHO reckons India needs to improve diagnosis and treatment of patients to shrug off the lethal distinction of being the world's TB capi...

The joint statement was signed at the 71st World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2011, inaugurated by President Pratibha P...