Just six countries accounted for 60% of the world’s new TB cases — India, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. Of these, people living with HIV accounting for 1.2 million (11%) of the new cases.
India is a signatory to the WHO’s ‘The End TB Strategy’ that calls for a world free of tuberculosis, with measurable aims of a 50% and 75% reduction in incidence and deaths, respectively by 2025, and corresponding reductions of 90% and 95% by 2035. To meet these targets, India is adopting newer strategies, such as increasing rapid molecular diagnostics, Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification (CBNAAT) sites provide rapid decentralised diagnosis of MDR-TB, and use of bedaquiline, a new anti-TB drug through conditional access to treat drug-resistant TB.
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