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  2. Tuberculosis in India - Wikipedia

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    India bears a disproportionately large burden of the world's tuberculosis rates, with World Health Organization (WHO) statistics for 2011 giving an estimated incidence figure of 2.2 million cases for India out of a global incidence of 9.6 million cases. [1] Tuberculosis is one of India's biggest health issues, but what makes this problem even ...

  3. WHO: Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years - AOL

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    WHO said about 450,000 cases involved people infected with drug-resistant TB, 3% more than in 2020. Dr. Mel Spigelman, president of the non-profit TB Alliance, said more than a decade of progress ...

  4. National TB Elimination Program (India) - Wikipedia

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    The State TB Cell and the District TB Office govern the activities of the program at the state and district level respectively. At the sub-district/ Block level activities are organized under the Tuberculosis Unit (TB Unit). The Central TB Division is headed by a Deputy Director General - TB (DDG-TB) and is the National Program Manager.

  5. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    India had the highest total number of TB cases worldwide in 2010, in part due to poor disease management within the private and public health care sector. [226] Programs such as the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program are working to reduce TB levels among people receiving public health care. [227] [228]

  6. Why tuberculosis cases have risen in recent years after ... - AOL

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    Tuberculosis cases ticked up from 2020 to 2022. That's likely a result of reduced access to medical care — and therefore screenings — during the pandemic. Why tuberculosis cases have risen in ...

  7. Tuberculosis surpasses COVID-19 as deadliest infectious ... - AOL

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    Tuberculosis is back to being the leading infectious disease killer across the globe, surpassing COVID-19, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization.. Nearly 8.2 million ...

  8. List of tuberculosis cases - Wikipedia

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    He got tuberculosis exacerbated by the dank conditions in his cell Albert Mountain Horse (1893–1915), Kainai Canadian soldier Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896), Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason

  9. Health in India - Wikipedia

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    India is the highest TB burden country in the world in terms of absolute number of incident cases that occur each year. [23] TB primarily affects people in their most productive years of life. While two-thirds of the cases are male, TB takes disproportionately larger toll among young females, with more than 60 per cent of female cases occurring ...