Tuberculosis – Recent Expansion of Services in a Lens of Surveillance
Journal Title: Healthline - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Tuberculosis is a public health problem in India and globally. Recent estimates have given some more understanding how we measure burden of this age old disease. This is in particular in India. The Global TB Report from World Health Organization documented the revision in estimates of TB in India to be on higher side. As per this report, it is estimated to be 28 lac cases of TB occurred in 2015 and 4.8 lac patients died due to TB. TB is one of the top 10 causes of deaths worldwide and TB now causes more deaths than HIV annually. In India, TB is the leading cause of death among infectious disease in the age group of 15-49 years. This toll of death can only be prevented if we reach to each and every TB patients to act upon.
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