Nutritional security is vital in the fight against TB
2 years, 9 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 populations, and other economically marginalised populations. A few years ago, India launched the Nikshay Poshan Yojana, a nutritional support programme for TB patients who cannot afford sufficient nutritious food. Even with government assistance, 50% of TB patients’ families suffer financially devastating expenditures as they struggle to satisfy their nutritional and other medical demands, driving them deeper into poverty and the disease trap.

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Pune civic body to provide food baskets to TB patients from March 24
6 days, 9 hours ago

Pune civic body to provide food baskets to TB patients from March 24

Hindustan Times  

The Pune Municipal Corporation will start providing food baskets from March 24, World TB Day, for supplementary nutritional support to patients, said officials. The civic body has made budget allocation of ₹ 1crore for these nutritional support programme under which the food baskets will be provided. The civic body has made budget allocation of ₹1crore for these nutritional support programme …

Govt disburses ₹3,649 crore to 12 million tuberculosis patients for nutrition
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Govt disburses ₹3,649 crore to 12 million tuberculosis patients for nutrition

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The government has disbursed ₹3,649 crore to 12.4 million tuberculosis patients to help them with a nutritional diet, key to treating the disease, according to the health ministry official overseeing India's TB control efforts. The government, in 2018, introduced NPY scheme to provide financial aid to TB patients for their nutritional supplements.” As part of the plan, when …

‘India sets an example to the world that global health challenges can be overcome’
3 weeks, 3 days ago

‘India sets an example to the world that global health challenges can be overcome’

The Hindu  

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore N.K. Lokanath said here on Tuesday that India has taken decisive steps to eliminate tuberculosis through collaboration, innovation, and determination and set an example to the world that global health challenges can be overcome. He was speaking after inaugurating a national workshop titled “Ni-Kshay Yakshma Samvada” on tuberculosis organised by the Government Ayurvedic …

Health Talk: How meeting nutritional needs of TB patients can make a difference
4 weeks ago

Health Talk: How meeting nutritional needs of TB patients can make a difference

Hindustan Times  

The Lancet Global Health recently published a paper that said at least half a million deaths could be prevented between 2023 and 2035 if 80% of the adults in tuberculosis -affected households are provided food baskets and supplements. According to the Lancet paper, a nutritional intervention in the form of food baskets and micronutrient supplements distributed to adults for TB …

TG intensifies efforts to combat TB
1 month, 2 weeks ago

TG intensifies efforts to combat TB

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:The Telangana government is intensifying its fight against tuberculosis with a comprehensive strategy that includes continuous screening, awareness campaigns and free medical support for patients. Health minister C. Damodar Rajanarsimha said the state’s commitment to achieving a TB-free Telangana while recognising the role of pharmaceutical companies in supporting patients. Under the initiative, eight pharmaceutical companies are providing free monthly nutrition …

In a first, Amritsar admn starts delivery of cooked meals to TB patients
1 month, 2 weeks ago

In a first, Amritsar admn starts delivery of cooked meals to TB patients

Hindustan Times  

For the first time, Amritsar district has started a project to deliver cooked high-protein meals to tuberculosis patients under the national TB elimination programme to as many as 5,053 persons at their doorsteps twice a day. Dr Balbir Singh said that nutritional support would play a vital role in the recovery process for TB patients. The idea of providing cooked …

Behind India’s success in curbing tuberculosis
3 months, 2 weeks 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 …

Drop in India’s tuberculosis burden doubled since 2015: Health Minister JP Nadda
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Drop in India’s tuberculosis burden doubled since 2015: Health Minister JP Nadda

New Indian Express  

India, which tops the list of 30 countries with high-burden TB cases, aims to eliminate TB by 2025, five years ahead of the target set by SDG. Nadda highlighted the country’s long struggle in its fight against tuberculosis, saying that at one time TB was considered “slow death”. Since 1962, there have been many campaigns against tuberculosis, but in 2018, …

Kishan Reddy launches 100 days intensive TB campaign in 9 Telangana districts
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Kishan Reddy launches 100 days intensive TB campaign in 9 Telangana districts

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: BJP state president and Union minister G. Kishan Reddy launched the 100-day Tuberculo sis Mukht Abhiyan at the State TB Hospital, Erragadda, on Saturday. Kishan Reddy said that nine districts of Telangana including Adilabad, Karimnagar and Suryapet, had been included among 347 districts in the action plan to provide necessary healthcare and nutritious food to TB patients for 100 …

Boost the TB fight with better undernutrition monitoring
4 months 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 …

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

T.N. ropes in volunteers to provide food baskets for severely ill, undernourished TB patients
1 year, 5 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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 …

Lending a helping hand to eliminate TB as Ni-kshay Mitra
2 years, 3 months ago

Lending a helping hand to eliminate TB as Ni-kshay Mitra

The Hindu  

Public health experience has shown that undernutrition and TB form a vicious cycle. Optimum nutritional support to TB patients improves weight gain, adherence to therapy, muscle strength, quality of life, robust recovery and reduced mortality. Direct cash benefits With a sharper focus on the nutritional improvement among TB patients, the Union Health Ministry launched the Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana in 2018 …

India must fine-tune its strategy to eliminate Tuberculosis
2 years, 6 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 …

PM Modi to launch scheme to support nutritional needs of TB patients as India aims to eradicate the deadly disease
2 years, 7 months ago

PM Modi to launch scheme to support nutritional needs of TB patients as India aims to eradicate the deadly disease

Firstpost  

The scheme has tentatively been named Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan under which financial contributions from NGOs, private sector, or even individuals will be encouraged to support dietary requirements of TB patients 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 …

Cereals, Pulses, Fruits & Veggies: PM Modi to Launch Scheme to Support Nutritional Needs of TB Patients
2 years, 7 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, 8 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 …

The food vaccine as right, more so for TB patients
2 years, 11 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, 5 months 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, 5 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 …

TB-free India a distant reality for rural UP population struggling with recurrent TB and expensive private healthcare
6 years ago

TB-free India a distant reality for rural UP population struggling with recurrent TB and expensive private healthcare

Firstpost  

Under the Revised National TB Control Program, a patient is given an identification card that tracks their site of infection, severity and treatment course, ‘notifying’, or adding them onto a national database. “[TB> spreads because of dust, that’s what the doctor says,” said Daharra resident Ram Kishore. “We had to borrow money for the treatment,” she said, her voice a …

Keeping TB away with a healthy diet
7 years, 4 months ago

Keeping TB away with a healthy diet

The Hindu  

Can a healthy diet stave off tuberculosis? The Indian Council of Medical Research will monitor 2000 TB patients in Jharkhand and additionally ensure that they are well fed to determine the extent to which a good diet can influence tuberculosis treatment. While the link between a healthy diet and effectiveness of drugs used to treat TB may appear obvious, previous …

Under nutrition among TB patients in rural India doubles risk of mortality
11 years, 4 months ago

Under nutrition among TB patients in rural India doubles risk of mortality

The Hindu  

Severely undernourished tuberculosis patients in rural India have twice a higher risk of death, a scientific research study has concluded. The study conducted at Jan Swasthya Sahyog, a non-profit voluntary organisation, suggests the need for nutritional support during treatment of pulmonary TB among these patients. Research findings Researchers of this new study assessed the nutritional status of patients during TB …

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