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 their TB treatment, speaking to the combined impact of these diseases even after a ‘cure’. Experts have reported that TB-related respiratory complications have been a common cause of death among people with TB and DM, but which wasn’t the case with people with TB only. An important part of this is to improve the nutritional status of people with TB as well as DM, as this can help increase the chances of favourable TB-treatment outcomes.

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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 …

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 …

Health Ministry reworks protocol as India’s TB elimination drive plateaus
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Health Ministry reworks protocol as India’s TB elimination drive plateaus

The Hindu  

India’s goal to achieve rapid decline in the burden of tuberculosis morbidity and mortality, while working towards the elimination of TB in the country by 2025, has plateaued, a senior Health Ministry official said. According to the Health Ministry, India has been engaged in TB control activities for more than 50 years, yet the disease continues to be the country’s …

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 …

TB challenge needs a multi-focal approach
8 months, 3 weeks ago

TB challenge needs a multi-focal approach

Hindustan Times  

An increase in the number of tuberculosis cases notified in India in 2023 over 2022 underscores the rigour of the efforts to shrink the pool escaping the TB control programme’s radar. The better capture of cases can be credited to the private sector’s impressive jump in performance, as well as states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar bettering their record. India’s …

India's triumphs in the battle against TB
9 months 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 …

Health Matters | Test all, treat all — A TB mantra
1 year, 1 month ago

Health Matters | Test all, treat all — A TB mantra

The Hindu  

This week, news and feature pages, and much space online have been possibly consumed by discussion on diabetes, given that World Diabetes Day falls today, and given the number of diabetics that India has, maybe even rightly so. But taking a bird’s eye view, one realises that the biggest health news, arguably this week, was the launch of the WHO’s …

Tuberculosis: First time infections rise to 30-year high
1 year, 1 month ago

Tuberculosis: First time infections rise to 30-year high

Hindustan Times  

An estimated 10.6 million people developed tuberculosis in 2022. The World Health Organization said this was the highest annual record of new cases of TB since it started monitoring the disease in 1995. Due to isolation and quarantine measures during the pandemic, many people failed to get tested for TB, said Ananthakrishnan: "A large number of people who had extra …

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

The Hindu  

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, …

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 …

Death of tuberculosis patient in Kerala throws up questions on gaps in health care
1 year, 6 months ago

Death of tuberculosis patient in Kerala throws up questions on gaps in health care

The Hindu  

Mortality due to tuberculosis is coming into focus in Kerala again. Apart from the serious lapses committed by the State TB administration in expediting the purchase of the special drugs recommended for the youth, the episode lays bare the discomfiting fact that the State may be seriously falling behind in early case detection and follow-up care of patients — with …

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 …

WEB EXCLUSIVE | How COVID-19 has hit India’s fight against TB
2 years ago

WEB EXCLUSIVE | How COVID-19 has hit India’s fight against TB

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 06, 2022 16:26 IST It is slowly becoming apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic, which first hit India in early 2020, has had devastating and long-lasting effects on the nation’s ability to achieve its tuberculosis goals. The pandemic, followed by lockdowns and large-scale migrations of various populations, has continued to impact access to diagnosis as well as treatment …

“We are working towards a TB vaccine in India”
2 years ago

“We are working towards a TB vaccine in India”

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 06, 2022 15:24 IST While the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020 did impact tuberculosis elimination efforts and services across the country, several campaigns were put in place to offset the impact, according to Dr. Raghuram Rao, Assistant Director General, Central TB Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. The National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme responded with timely …

India accounts for 28% of 10.6 million TB cases in 2021: WHO report
2 years, 1 month ago

India accounts for 28% of 10.6 million TB cases in 2021: WHO report

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Around 10.6 million people across the world were diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020, while 1.6 million patients died of the bacterial disease, according to the World Health Organization’s 2022 Global TB report. Nearly 82% of global TB deaths among HIV-negative people occurred in the African and South-East Asia regions, with India alone …

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 …

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 …

Data | How did COVID affect TB treatment in India?
2 years, 8 months ago

Data | How did COVID affect TB treatment in India?

The Hindu  

India recorded a dramatic decrease in Tuberculosis cases during the pandemic. Active case findings are done among targeted risk groups, including people with diabetes, chronic kidney and liver disease, and patients on immunosuppressants, with the primary objective of detecting TB cases early. Active case findings The chart shows the number of active case findings of TB in India. Click to …

Over 93% of notified TB cases in state have diabetes
2 years, 8 months ago

Over 93% of notified TB cases in state have diabetes

Hindustan Times  

PUNE At least 93 per cent of the identified Tuberculosis patients in the state also have been reported to have diabetes. At least 93 per cent of the identified Tuberculosis patients in the state also have been reported to have diabetes. There has been a significant diabetic percentage among TB patients in the state which is worrisome as it also …

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 …

World Tuberculosis Day 2022: Ways to prevent transmission of this airborne disease
2 years, 9 months ago

World Tuberculosis Day 2022: Ways to prevent transmission of this airborne disease

India TV News  

Highlights Avoid close contact with the person who has TB Practice good hygiene. Cover your mouth with your elbow while coughing or sneezing Healthcare personnel coming in contact with TB infected persons are at high risk of exposure Tuberculosis, commonly abbreviated to TB, is a highly infectious disease that primarily affects the lungs. Read: World Tuberculosis Day 2022: Ayurvedic remedies …

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 …

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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