How Can India Wipe out TB When 25% of Patients Are ‘Missing’?

Published on November 12, 2019

How Can India Wipe out TB When 25% of Patients Are ‘Missing’?

INDIASPEND, 11 Nov 2019

Tuberculosis (TB) cases in India declined by 1.8% from 2.74 million in 2017 to 2.69 million in 2018, but the rate of decline is not enough to meet India’s target of eliminating TB ⁠— a disease that killed one in six of those infected in 2018--by 2025, according to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 2019 Global TB report.

The rate of decline in India (1.8% per year) is comparable to the global decline at 2% per year.

Also Read : The Missing TB Patients in India And Other Facts You Need to Know

However, given that India has a large number of TB cases, it needs to reduce TB cases by 10% every year to meet its TB elimination target, five years before the global target of 2030.

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