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Ive also had the opportunity to brief the minister about my observations and suggestions and take his advice on the way forward..
However, if you really look at the burden of TB and the tools we have today we dont have a very good vaccine, we only now are scaling up rapid molecular diagnostics, treatments are long, socio-economic issues impact outcomes..
In two-three years, well have good results coming on the tuberculosis vaccine nutrition trial done in Jharkhand showed that if you give good nutrition to household contacts of patients, you can bring down the incidence of TB by over 50 per cent...
Listen to Soumya Swaminathan, principal adviser, National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, as she talks to The Tribunes Aditi Tandon about the challenges for India in its fight against TB..
Considering we dont have a very good vaccine today, nutrition could actually be the approach in places like India and other countries where malnutrition is a risk factor for TB...
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