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  2. Tuberculosis in India - Wikipedia

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    Tuberculosis is one of India's major public health problems. According to World Health Organization estimates, India has the world's largest tuberculosis epidemic. [5] In 2020, India accounted for 26% of the incident TB cases across the globe. India has incidence rate of 192 cases per 100,000 of population.

  3. 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]

  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. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    [21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...

  6. Elimination of tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Elimination of tuberculosis is the effort to reduce the number of tuberculosis (TB) cases to less than one per 1 million population, contrasted with the effort to completely eradicate infection in humans worldwide. [1] The goal of tuberculosis elimination is hampered by the lack of rapid testing, short and effective treatment courses, and ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. National Tuberculosis Institute - Wikipedia

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    The National Tuberculosis Institute (NTIB) [1] is a Government of India institute, under the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, dedicated to advanced research on Tuberculosis.

  9. Category:Tuberculosis by country - Wikipedia

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    Tuberculosis in India (14 P) N. Tuberculosis in Nepal (1 C, 1 P) P. Tuberculosis in Pakistan (2 C, 1 P) U. Tuberculosis in the United States (1 C, 5 P)