TB: The new dangers


The rise in the number of cases and deaths due to drug-resistant tuberculosis is proving to be an impediment to India’s ambition to end the disease by 2025. What more do we need to do?

New Delhi,ISSUE DATE: May 15, 2023 | UPDATED: May 5, 2023 19:38 IST

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(Illustration: Nilanjan Das)

(Illustration: Nilanjan Das)

IT was only natural that India took the lead in hosting the One World TB Summit in Varanasi recently, because the country still has the highest burden of tuberculosis in the world. Not only do we account for almost a quarter of the total 10 million people afflicted with TB annually, we also lose more than 400,000 people a year to the disease, more than a third of the world’s annual toll of 1.4 million. At the venue in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated India’s commitment to eliminate TB by 2025, five years ahead of the UN target. He also launched a TB-Mukt Panchayat Initiative to expand the ambit of India’s tuberculosis elimination effort down to the last village.



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