The Indian government is lagging behind in the issue of Tuberculosis (TB) treatment according to Harvard Medical School expert, Jennifer Furin in an email interview with The Hindu. The focal point of the matter is India’s lack of access to treatment via Bedaquiline, a drug capable of treating multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). Created in response …
India holds a disproportionate percentage of the world’s new cases, and deaths associated with tuberculosis (TB). In 2015 India accounted for 2.8 million cases of the world’s total 8 million, with a similar percentage of deaths associated with the disease — 480,000 of a total of roughly 2 million. Despite attempts in the past few …
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