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Tuberculosis in India is a major health problem, causing about 220,000 deaths every year. In 2020, the Indian government made statements to eliminate tuberculosis from the country by 2025 through its National TB Elimination Program .
In India a sizable proportion of the people with symptoms suggestive of pulmonary tuberculosis approach the private sector for their immediate health care needs. However, the private sector is overburdened, and lacks the capacity to treat such high volumes of patients.
A comparison of the genes of M. tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in humans to MTBC in animals suggests humans did not acquire MTBC from animals during animal domestication, as researchers previously believed. Both strains of the tuberculosis bacteria share a common ancestor, which could have infected humans even before the Neolithic Revolution. [17]
Operation ASHA (OpASHA) is a non-profit organization (NGO) founded in 2006 to bring tuberculosis (TB) treatment at economically feasible rates to disadvantaged communities. [1] The organization's primary work is to detect and cure TB, as well as to prevent and treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in India and Cambodia. [2]
The United Nations-backed Stop TB Partnership said J&J's new price of $130 and Lupin's price of $194 for a six-month course of the treatment represented a 55% and 33% price reduction, respectively.
Respiratory infections and tuberculosis: 6.85: 19.49%: Enteric infections: 3.31 Sexually transmitted infections ... Death by age group as rate compared to the age ...
Making things even more complicated is that the form of tuberculosis circulating right now appears to be resistant to two common treatment methods for the disease.
According to a 2013 review, tuberculosis elimination will require not just treating active tuberculosis but also latent cases, and eliminating tuberculosis by 2050 worldwide is not possible, although great reductions in infections and deaths are possible. [3] Addressing poverty is a further requirement for eliminating tuberculosis.