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TB-free India: Mandaviya reaffirms commitment

August 12, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

TB elimination, TB-free India. Concept.

This week, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya restated the Government’s commitment to working towards a TB-free India by 2025. How plausible is this ambition? “[The] Government and people will work together to make India TB-Free by 2025,” the Minister told lawmakers in the Rajya Sabha. He emphasised the need to raise awareness of tuberculosis as […]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, National, News, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: Mansukh L. Mandaviya, MDR-TB, TB, Tuberculosis, XDR-TB

TB elimination by 2025: Vardhan speaks out

February 18, 2020 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

TB-free India.

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has affirmed that the Centre is working towards its goal of tuberculosis (TB) elimination ahead of global targets. “By 2025, we wish to eliminate tuberculosis from India,” the Minister informed the press on the sidelines of the Rotary India Centennial Summit in Kolkata on Saturday. The 2025 target for […]

Filed Under: Featured, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, National, News, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: elimination, Harsh Vardhan, MDR-TB, TB, Tuberculosis

TB mortality: A nineteen percent reduction

December 4, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

TB elimination, TB-free India. Concept.

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has touted India’s progress in reducing deaths due to tuberculosis (TB), with a nineteen percent reduction in TB mortality since the beginning of the decade.  Affirming the Government’s commitment to eradicating TB by 2025 – five years ahead of global targets to reduce TB incidence by eighty percent and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: Harsh Vardhan, HIV, MDR-TB, TB, Tuberculosis, XDR-TB

Drug resistant TB: 5 lakh and rising

October 24, 2019 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

TB-free India.

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an ever growing threat in India and globally. If not properly addressed, the situation presents a possibility of TB strains that are both infectious and all but untreatable plaguing both India as well as the rest of the globe. India accounts for 27 percent of the global disease burden due to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Infectious diseases, International, News Tagged With: drug resistance, MDR-TB

TB in India: Fewer cases but still the most in the world

October 19, 2019 By Kerean Watts 1 Comment

TB elimination, TB-free India. Concept.

Tuberculosis (TB) in India continues to be a major public health burden, even as cases have decreased. This is according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) report on TB, launched earlier this week, which provides an overview of how the world is tackling one of its dominant infectious disease challenges.  The news is not […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: access to medicines, drug resistance, HIV, lung disease, MDR-TB, Tuberculosis, World Health Organization, world tb day, XDR-TB

Sarcoidosis: All but a mystery in India

September 14, 2019 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

Sarcoidosis — a disease which involves inflammation within the lungs — is a relatively obscure health concern in India. It is rarely diagnosed and so prevalence rates are all but unknown. Concerningly, the disease may be adding to the development of drug resistance in strains of tuberculosis (TB). Sarcoidosis has a number of symptoms that […]

Filed Under: Featured, Infectious diseases, News, Noncommunicable diseases Tagged With: MDR-TB

Hope for drug-resistant TB?

August 24, 2019 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

TB tuberculosis elimination Photo credit: Prof Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health Director, McGill Global Health Programs Associate Director, McGill International TB Centre

Tuberculosis (TB) or, more specifically, drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), is shaping up to be one of India’s foremost health concerns in the future. Studies claim that India accounts for 27 percent of the world’s 10.4 million new TB cases and 29 percent of the 1.8 million deaths globally. India also accounts for sixteen percent of the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Infectious diseases, News Tagged With: Bedaquiline, MDR-TB

World TB Day: Will India show leadership in the fight against TB?

March 24, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

TB-free India.

“It was something that I had never expected, I was really shocked,” Nandita Venkatesan said as she recalled finding out she had become re-infected with tuberculosis (TB) in 2013. It was six years after she was first diagnosed with the disease in 2007, some months before her eighteenth birthday. In a candid conversation profiled in […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, National, Noncommunicable diseases, Opinion, Social issues Tagged With: access to healthcare, access to medicines, diabetes, infectious diseases, malnutrition, MDR-TB, MoHFW, Tuberculosis, United Nations, world tb day, XDR-TB

How Mumbai fares in the fight against TB

March 22, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Drug resistance is one of the most pressing public health challenges facing India, especially when it comes to tuberculosis (TB). As the country grapples with one of the largest TB burdens in the world, rising cases of drug resistance presents an alarming trend. TB cases which become resistant to the most effective front-line drugs are […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, National, Social issues Tagged With: access to medicines, drug resistance, Maharashtra, MDR-TB, Mumbai, TB, Tuberculosis, XDR-TB

New Bedaquiline trial shows promising results

November 10, 2018 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

tuberculosis, TB, COPD Image ID : 83587190 Copyright : Puwadol Jaturawutthichai

A new weapon in the fight against tuberculosis may have been found during a trial in Belarus. The drug, named Bedaquiline, was shown to have more than a ninety percent cure rate when given in combination with other TB medicines. By comparison, current TB drugs were shown to be effective in just over half of cases. Like […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, News Tagged With: Bedaquiline, drug resistance, MDR-TB

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