Tuberculosis Elimination in India: Bigger Goals, Smaller Commitments
Journal Title: Epidemiology International - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
India continues to remain the perfect host for one of the oldest and dreadful communicable disease -tuberculosis (TB) and accounts for one fourth of the global TB burden. With an incidence of 217 cases per lakh & mortality rate of 36 per lakh population in 2015, 28 lakhs new cases occurred and 4.8 lakh people died due to TB in year 2015.1We also have the highest burden of MDR cases in our country, which constitutes about 1.6% of all TB cases. India also bears second highest number of estimated HIV associated TB in the world. About 1.1 lakh cases also had HIV co-infection and this was responsible for about 37,000 deaths. However, the country has managed to maintain a falling trend of incidence and mortality rates from beginning of the millennium. These estimates will be looked back, once we have the final results from the 2015-16 national TB prevalence survey. Despite improvements, TB is still a nightmare for the public health experts of the country as total treatment coverage was just 57%, and the rest of the neglected patients face catastrophic cost of treatment.
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Dr. Madhur Verma
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