The Global TB Report 2016, recently released, has revised the estimates
for the tuberculosis (TB) burden in India upwards.
India has 27% of the global burden of incident tuberculosis and 34 per cent of global TB deaths.
For the year 2015, the updated estimate of incidence (new and relapse TB cases per year) is 2.8 million cases.
India diagnosed and notified 1.7 million incident TB patients in 2015, leaving approximately 1.1 million presumptive patients whose fate was unknown.
The actual burden of TB will be known only after the completion of a national TB prevalence survey scheduled for 2017-2018; the numbers could be even higher.
Worryingly, the 2015 estimate of the number of TB deaths is 4,78,000 — making TB one of the leading causes of death in India.
Further, of the estimated 79,000 cases of multidrug resistant (MDR) TB, about 31,000 were diagnosed and the majority put on treatment.
India has 27% of the global burden of incident tuberculosis and 34 per cent of global TB deaths.
For the year 2015, the updated estimate of incidence (new and relapse TB cases per year) is 2.8 million cases.
India diagnosed and notified 1.7 million incident TB patients in 2015, leaving approximately 1.1 million presumptive patients whose fate was unknown.
The actual burden of TB will be known only after the completion of a national TB prevalence survey scheduled for 2017-2018; the numbers could be even higher.
Worryingly, the 2015 estimate of the number of TB deaths is 4,78,000 — making TB one of the leading causes of death in India.
Further, of the estimated 79,000 cases of multidrug resistant (MDR) TB, about 31,000 were diagnosed and the majority put on treatment.
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