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TB in India: A fight to the end

November 10, 2023 7:41 am

Express View: WHO report shows India has made improvements, but could miss its 2035 target to eliminate the disease

Across India, TB notification falls by 3.4 lakh cases in first six months of 2020

August 04, 2020 11:24 pm

Experts attribute the decline to the inability of TB patients to avail health services during the lockdown months and caution that TB control programmes must prepare themselves for major difficulties ahead as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Doctors say city’s large TB population will add to COVID-19 burden

April 12, 2020 6:06 am

Under the National TB control programme, Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) centres are responsible for ensuring that medicines is administered and even delivered to registered TB patients in the area.

TB patients not happy with ‘ready to eat’ food packets

October 12, 2015 5:41 am

However, state TB officials admitted that the pilot project in Mumbai showed that not many MDR-TB patients were happy with the choice of food, its quantity, and wanted a change.

More than 1500 people diagnosed with tuberculosis in Mizoram

October 28, 2014 6:22 pm

42 people have been identified as patients suffering from both TB and HIV.

Why TB persists

March 28, 2014 9:07 am

Public and private efforts must converge to battle it.

Cancer cases on the rise: Ghulam Nabi Azad tells Rajya Sabha

February 19, 2014 2:11 pm

The minister informed the House that the number of HIV infected cases in the country has come down.

TB patients in city to soon get reminders to take medicines

November 22, 2013 6:45 am

Out of 122 applications,15 were shortlisted to receive the seed grant.

Hunger Pangs

November 06, 2013 4:57 am

Rampant under-nutrition in rural areas heightens the threat of TB in India despite effective treatment.

Corporator inspires diet idea for TB patients in city

September 26, 2013 3:03 am

Vijay Tandel has been distributing free eggs and biscuits to poor patients at a hospital in Kurla

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