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 nine States found that in 2022 76.1% of TB patients received at least one month’s payment, up from 56.9% in 2018. The study which analysed the data from 2018 to 2022 of nine randomly selected States — Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Odisha, Bihar, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Meghalaya — were published recently in the journal BMC Public Health. Delhi, Rajasthan and Bihar had TB scores less than 60, while Uttarakhand, Telangana and Tamil Nadu had medium TB scores, and Meghalaya, Odisha and Gujarat had high TB scores of over 80. TB patients in Odisha and Tamil Nadu experienced the shortest delay of 63 and 68 days, respectively, in receiving the first instalment, while TB patients in Delhi experienced the longest delay of 136 days.

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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 …

Eliminating TB by 2025 looks near impossible
4 months ago

Eliminating TB by 2025 looks near impossible

Hindustan Times  

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. The latest WHO Global TB Report reveals that India has the world’s largest TB epidemic; at 2.6 million, the country accounts for the highest number of TB cases as well as multi-drug resistant cases. A study from Mumbai highlighted an unacceptably long average delay between a …

Study reveals alarming economic burden of TB treatment
6 months, 1 week ago

Study reveals alarming economic burden of TB treatment

The Hindu  

A study of 1,482 TB patients across four states revealed shockingly high rates of catastrophic costs, with 30% to 61% experiencing financial hardship exceeding 20% of pre-TB annual household income mainly due to delays in diagnosis and income loss because of unemployment during long TB treatment. In the output approach, which was the second form of modelling, reduced productivity in …

Study finds alarming financial hardship resulting from TB marring treatment programme
6 months, 1 week ago

Study finds alarming financial hardship resulting from TB marring treatment programme

The Hindu  

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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  

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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. Of all the TB cases notified in 2023, nearly 32% of notifications came from …

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 …

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 …

Improved drug regimens for TB to cut treatment time
1 year ago

Improved drug regimens for TB to cut treatment time

The Hindu  

This November, at The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2023, there was much optimism, as it seemed that there were finally tools available to fast-track work on multiple aspects of TB control. Four, new improved drug regimens that could cut treatment time for drug resistant tuberculosis by up to two thirds, were the primary source of this optimism. According …

Eight months on, States wait for 3HP TB preventive drug
1 year ago

Eight months on, States wait for 3HP TB preventive drug

The Hindu  

Eight months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the pan-India rollout of a shorter TB Preventive Treatment in March 2023 called the 3HP — once-weekly isoniazid-rifapentine for 12 weeks — States are yet to receive the 3HP combination drug from the Central TB Division. But if active TB disease is not ruled out before starting TB preventive treatment, there is …

WHO hailed India’s success in managing TB: Union Health Ministry
1 year, 1 month ago

WHO hailed India’s success in managing TB: Union Health Ministry

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India has made tremendous progress in improving case detection and reversed the impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis programme, noted the World Health Organization’s ‘Global TB Report 2023’ released earlier this week, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. “The WHO has made a downward revision of TB mortality rates from 4.94 lakh in 2021 to 3.31 lakh in 2022, …

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 …

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  

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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 …

India sees sharp rise in tuberculosis patients, cases up by 19% in 2021, says Centre
2 years, 8 months ago

India sees sharp rise in tuberculosis patients, cases up by 19% in 2021, says Centre

Firstpost  

The total number of new and relapsed TB patients notified in India during 2021 were 19,33,381 as against 16,28,161 in 2020, the report showed New Delhi: The number of tuberculosis cases in India has seen a 19 per cent rise in 2021 over the previous year, according to the annual TB report released by Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on …

India to be TB-free by 2025, says Minister
2 years, 9 months ago

India to be TB-free by 2025, says Minister

The Hindu  

A 19% increase was witnessed in 2021 from the previous year in TB patients’ notification. On the World Tuberculosis Day on Thursday, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya reaffirmed the government’s commitment to making India tuberculosis–free by 2025 and said this will be achieved by ensuring access to quality healthcare and advanced treatment. The report said despite the brief decline in TB …

Delayed diagnosis of TB being reported in Kerala
3 years, 1 month ago

Delayed diagnosis of TB being reported in Kerala

The Hindu  

When restricted delivery of health-care services in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic had seriously affected tuberculosis diagnosis and care across nations, Kerala, through an integrated TB-COVID screening programme, had managed to catch up with much of the “missed” TB cases in the State. However, nearly two years after the pandemic began, delayed diagnosis of TB cases is being reported …

Data | TB deaths on a seven-year high as case notifications and outpatient visits dipped in 2020
3 years, 2 months ago

Data | TB deaths on a seven-year high as case notifications and outpatient visits dipped in 2020

The Hindu  

As many as 1.3 million fewer cases of Tuberculosis were detected in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the WHO. Following a drop in detection of new cases, deaths attributed to TB rose for the first time in the last 16 years in the world. Worryingly, among high-burden nations, India spent the least on TB drugs per patient despite accounting …

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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