Boost the TB fight with better undernutrition monitoring
1 month ago

Boost the TB fight with better undernutrition monitoring

The Hindu  

Around one-third of tuberculosis in India is attributable to undernutrition, which, in adults, is defined as having a body mass index less than 18.5 kg/m². In India, available research suggests the burden of ‘severe’ and ‘very severe’ undernutrition to be very high among adults with TB. The Reducing Activation of Tuberculosis by Improvement of Nutritional Status trial from Jharkhand documented that 32% of adults with pulmonary TB had ‘severe’ undernutrition and 17% had ‘very severe’ undernutrition at TB diagnosis. The second point is on the percentage of ‘severely’ and ‘very severely’ undernourished adults who receive the first instalment of direct benefit transfer and food baskets within a month of diagnosis. The third is on the percentage of adults with ‘very severe’ undernutrition receiving inpatient care along with provision of therapeutic nutrition.

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Behind India’s success in curbing tuberculosis
1 week, 2 days ago

Behind India’s success in curbing tuberculosis

Hindustan Times  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call to eliminate tuberculosis from India laid the foundation for a new model of TB care and management. India has a unique universal nutritional support scheme — the Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana for TB patients. The monthly support under Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana was doubled to ₹1,000 per month from November 1, 2024, to reinforce India’s commitment …

Eradication of TB remains a distant goal as systemic challenges persist
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Eradication of TB remains a distant goal as systemic challenges persist

The Hindu  

March 28, 2024 10:35 pm | Updated March 29, 2024 12:40 pm IST Ahead of World TB Day on March 24, Survivors Against TB, a community advocacy group of TB survivors, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister “on the urgent and pressing need to expand efforts to address India’s Tuberculosis crisis.” The letter mentions that despite the government’s commitment …

2.55 million cases of TB notified in India last year, most in decades
8 months, 3 weeks ago

2.55 million cases of TB notified in India last year, most in decades

Hindustan Times  

India notified nearly 2.55 million cases of tuberculosis last year according to government data, the highest achieved since the start of the TB control programme in the 60s, indicating the efficacy of a drive to identify individuals afflicted with the disease, and ensure they get treated. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Last year, 2.42 million cases were notified from across the …

India's triumphs in the battle against TB
8 months, 4 weeks ago

India's triumphs in the battle against TB

Hindustan Times  

Tuberculosis, one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases, has relentlessly challenged humanity throughout history. Every day, TB claims over 3,500 lives and nearly 30,000 people contract this preventable and curable disease, hitting countries like India particularly hard. Before 1997, the battle against TB in India faced significant challenges, with high costs making diagnosis and treatment inaccessible to many, especially …

76% of TB patients received payment for nutritional support
9 months, 4 weeks ago

76% of TB patients received payment for nutritional support

The Hindu  

February 24, 2024 09:10 pm | Updated February 26, 2024 06:09 pm IST If in 2022 only 1.6 million of the 2.4 million notified TB cases received at least one month’s payment of ₹500 under the Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana direct benefit transfer programme for nutritional support as per the India TB report 2023, a study that analysed the data of …

A model that provides all TB services under one roof
11 months ago

A model that provides all TB services under one roof

The Hindu  

India has a stated goal of eliminating tuberculosis by 2025. In an article - ‘Walk In Centre - One Stop TB Solution - A Model Game Changer in Tuberculosis Control’ - published in the State’s public health journal, officials of the directorates of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and of Medical and Rural Health Services have outlined the need for …

Nutritional tips for preventing tuberculosis in children
1 year, 1 month ago

Nutritional tips for preventing tuberculosis in children

Hindustan Times  

Tuberculosis remains a significant health concern, particularly for children in regions with high TB prevalence but while TB prevention primarily involves vaccination and infection control, nutrition plays a crucial role in strengthening a child's immune system and reducing the risk of TB infection. Nutritional tips for preventing tuberculosis in children In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Santosh N, Senior …

T.N. ropes in volunteers to provide food baskets for severely ill, undernourished TB patients
1 year, 2 months ago

T.N. ropes in volunteers to provide food baskets for severely ill, undernourished TB patients

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu has prioritised the nutritional status of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis and identified as severely ill and undernourished. In an initiative of its own, the State TB Cell has roped in volunteers to provide food baskets containing a recommended portion of high-protein food, and in the past one year, has reached out to 38,235 patients across the State. Nurses …

One-third of TB patients received no payment for nutrition support
1 year, 3 months ago

One-third of TB patients received no payment for nutrition support

The Hindu  

Undernutrition is the leading risk factor for TB disease. Yet, nutrition support became a part of the national TB programme only in April 2018 when Nikshay Poshan Yojana — a direct benefit transfer scheme for nutritional support to TB patients — was launched. In September 2022, India launched another nutrition support programme called Ni-kshay Mitra to consented TB patients. Nikshay …

Explained | Can improved nutrition help prevent TB?
1 year, 4 months ago

Explained | Can improved nutrition help prevent TB?

The Hindu  

The story so far: According to recent reports in The Lancet and The Lancet Global Health, nutritional support has helped prevent both tuberculosis among household contacts and mortality among TB patients in a trial in Jharkhand. While all the TB patients received nutritional support, household contacts were randomly assigned to receive either nutritional support or usual diet alone. Among the …

Trial done in India shows nutrition support prevents TB, related deaths
1 year, 4 months ago

Trial done in India shows nutrition support prevents TB, related deaths

The Hindu  

A large trial undertaken in India has underscored the role of nutritional supplementation in sharply cutting down tuberculosis disease rate in the household contacts of an index patient, and mortality reduction in people diagnosed with active pulmonary TB. In the randomised controlled trial involving household contacts of patients with pulmonary TB, nutritional support led to 39-48% reduction in TB disease …

Explained | India’s diabetes epidemic is making India’s TB epidemic worse
1 year, 5 months ago

Explained | India’s diabetes epidemic is making India’s TB epidemic worse

The Hindu  

Long before COVID-19 devastated us, India has been experiencing the double burden of two debilitating and severe epidemics – type 2 diabetes and tuberculosis. DM also increases the likelihood of unfavourable TB treatment outcomes, such as treatment failure, relapse/reinfection, and even death. Persistent inflammation has also been seen in people with DM and TB – even after they have completed …

Tamil Nadu’s novel initiative results in reduced TB deaths
1 year, 9 months ago

Tamil Nadu’s novel initiative results in reduced TB deaths

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu has pioneered an initiative across the State to reduce the mortality rate among people with tuberculosis. In lieu of the 16 parameters, Chennai-based National Institute of Epidemiology, which is spearheading TN-KET along with the State TB Cell, found that preliminary assessment of patients based on just three conditions — very severe undernutrition, respiratory insufficiency, and inability to stand …

India must fine-tune its strategy to eliminate Tuberculosis
2 years, 2 months ago

India must fine-tune its strategy to eliminate Tuberculosis

The Hindu  

Termed as the severest crisis in a century, the COVID-19 pandemic dislodged the entire health system in India, sidelining other public health issues, and tuberculosis was no exception. Despite an extensive national programme and a vast private sector, India is the global epicentre for TB, with an estimated 2.8 million TB cases, and with TB killing more than 4,00,000 Indians …

Cereals, Pulses, Fruits & Veggies: PM Modi to Launch Scheme to Support Nutritional Needs of TB Patients
2 years, 4 months ago

Cereals, Pulses, Fruits & Veggies: PM Modi to Launch Scheme to Support Nutritional Needs of TB Patients

News 18  

With a sharp focus on the eradication of tuberculosis in India, the Narendra Modi government is planning to launch a scheme to support the nutritional requirements of patients suffering from the deadly disease, News18.com has learnt. Driven primarily by the office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the scheme has tentatively been named Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan under which …

TB patients allege non-payment of monthly nutritional allowance
2 years, 5 months ago

TB patients allege non-payment of monthly nutritional allowance

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: Many tuberculosis patients in the city and state have alleged non-payment of the nutritional supplement allowance that they received every month from the government. Savita Pawar, a resident of Worli, who has been a TB patient since 2008 and was diagnosed with multi-drug-resistant TB in 2018, said she enrolled for the allowance since she started her TB treatment at …

Nutritional security is vital in the fight against TB
2 years, 6 months ago

Nutritional security is vital in the fight against TB

The Hindu  

Two silent epidemics, of tuberculosis and undernutrition, have been working together and devastating India for decades. But other ‘risk factors’ and ‘comorbidities’, among which feature undernutrition, can increase the probability of the latent bacteria manifesting themselves as TB disease. Despite India’s economic progress, even today, an increasing number of people remain undernourished and without food security, particularly children, women, tribal …

The food vaccine as right, more so for TB patients
2 years, 8 months ago

The food vaccine as right, more so for TB patients

The Hindu  

In the past, there was a belief that every ill had a pill and the pill killed the germs that made you ill. That germ could be a bacteria, virus or a parasite. Nutrition status and TB risk “The nutrition of the individual, is the most vital factor in the prevention in tuberculous disease,” said Dr. J.B. McDougall of the …

India's TB Elimination Programme Goes Beyond Medical Interventions, Says MoS Health
3 years, 1 month ago

India's TB Elimination Programme Goes Beyond Medical Interventions, Says MoS Health

News 18  

India’s TB elimination programme addresses all co-morbidities and goes beyond medical interventions to tackle the social determinants of the disease, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said Tuesday. Highlighting the commitment of India towards eliminating TB, she said, “India’s TB Elimination Programme is also addressing all co-morbidities and goes beyond medical interventions to tackle the social determinants of …

TB-free India by 2025 an aspirational goal, but paying attention to nutrition key to beating disease
3 years, 2 months ago

TB-free India by 2025 an aspirational goal, but paying attention to nutrition key to beating disease

Firstpost  

India accounts for the highest TB burden globally; 27 percent of the cases are detected in India. A recent study discovered that even after state- In Madhya Pradesh, after distributing protein-rich food baskets to TB patients for over a year, we have seen remarkable results:95 percent patients are TB-free and gained weight! Solutions Addressing undernutrition requires considering TB patients and …

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