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Union Health Minister Nadda leads key meet with Maharashtra parliamentaria
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
JP Nadda lauded India's progress in TB elimination, noting that the country achieved a 21% reduction in TB incidence between 2015 and 2024--nearly double the global rate. With a 90% treatment success rate, India has surpassed the worldwide average of 88%, as highlighted in the WHO Global
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TB incidence in India drops by 21% from 237 per lakh population in 2015 to
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
This decline is occurring at nearly twice the pace of the global decrease, which is India's innovative case finding approach, driven by the swift uptake of newer technologies, decentralization of services and large scale community mobilization, has led to the country's treatment coverage
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The Global TB Report 2024 by WHO acknowledged India's progress in tackling
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
The World Health Organization (WHO) released its Global TB Report 2024 on October 29, 2024. The report has acknowledged the tremendous progress India has made in closing the gap of missed TB cases since 2015. In 2023, India was estimated to have had 27 lakh TB cases, of which 25.1 lakh pe
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WHO acknowledges India's success in declining TB incidence, mortality redu
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
India's efforts have resulted in the reduction of TB incidence by 16 per cent in 2022 (from 2015), almost double the pace at which global TB incidence is declining (which is 8.7 per cent) while the mortality of TB has also reduced by 18 per cent during the same period in India and globally.
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India registers 18 pc surge with 21.4 lakh TB cases in 2021: WHO
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
India has performed far better on major metrics as compared to other countries over time, however, it registered 21.4 lakh TB cases in 2021, 18 per cent higher than in 2020.
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Tuberculosis cases surged for the first time in many years: WHO
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) also increased by 3 per cent between 2020 and 2021, with 450 000 new cases of rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) in 2021. This is the first time in many years an increase has been reported in the number of people falling ill with TB and drug resistant TB.
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