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Powerful campaign shows tobacco use fuelling India's TB epidemic
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India, has launched the world's first national tobacco control mass media campaign to warn people of the increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and dying from TB associated with smoking cigare
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India to become TB free by 2025: Nadda
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J.P. Nadda on Friday declared that the government would eradicate Tuberculosis (TB) by 2025.
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Committed to achieving zero TB deaths: Nadda
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 25 (ANI): With the aim of ensuring zero Tuberculosis (TB) deaths and affordable and quality healthcare to the population, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda launched new initiatives to combat the disease.
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World Tuberculosis Day 2017: Global community join hands to fight againstT
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), Mar. 24 (ANI): On the occasion of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the global community have joined hands in observing this day and fighting against the disease.
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President Mukherjee calls stakeholders to redouble efforts for elimination
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 24 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday called upon all stakeholders to redouble their efforts for an early achievement of TB elimination on the eve of World Tuberculosis Day.
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#WorldTBDay: Awareness campaign launched by flagging off mobile van
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 24 (ANI): Continuing its efforts to raise awareness on tuberculosis and its diagnosis, Division of Clinical Microbiology & Molecular Medicine Department of Laboratory Medicine, AIIMS, and BD (Becton Dickinson India) for the third consecutive year organized a sympo
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World Tuberculosis Day: Rising need to increase awareness among kids
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 24 (ANI): Ranking above HIV and malaria, health experts on the occasion of World Tuberculosis day, called for an increase in public awareness on the rising cases of TB among children.
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Candlelight vigil at India Gate marking World Tuberculosis Day
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 24 (ANI): On the solemn occasion of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, Members of Parliament, policymakers, TB patients, survivors, and citizens of the civil society gathered at India Gate on Thursday, March 23 to pay tribute to the nearly five lakh lives lost due to this d
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Under-nutrition makes children susceptible to TB: Doctors
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 24 (ANI): Emergence of multi drug resistant TB and complications aggravated by high rates of co-infection with HIV-AIDS has renewed the threat of TB epidemic in India. With widespread prevalence of the infection, children experience a serious risk of contracting Tuber
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World Tuberculosis Day 2017: Need to increase public awareness on TB among
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 24 (ANI): Tuberculosis can affect any age, caste or class and it is one of the top 10 causes of death across the globe, ranking above HIV and malaria.
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World Tuberculosis Day 2017 - Unite to End TB: Leave No One Behind
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 24 (ANI): Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death across the globe, ranking above HIV and malaria. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2015, there were 10.4 million new cases of TB worldwide.
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Here's a new treatment for TB patients
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Mar. 2 (ANI): Antibacterial compounds found in soil could spell the beginnings of a new treatment for tuberculosis, new research led by the University of Sydney has found.
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