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New Delhi:Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda will endeavour to revise Indias target to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, which was ambitiously set five years ahead of the global target by PM Narendra Modi in 2018, ThePrint has learnt...
As per the World Health Organizations Global TB report in 2023, the country accounted for 28 lakh cases, which is 27 percent of the global burden..
The United Nations indicators for TB includes an 80 percent reduction in incidence rate (new cases per lakh population) compared with levels in 2015, a 90% reduction in the TB mortality rate compared with levels in 2015 and zero TB-affected households suffering from catastrophic expenses due to the disease...
But the Indian governments TB report, released in March, showed that its efforts to curb the infectious disease has resulted in a decline of only 16 percent in TB incidence (new cases emerging each year) and an 18 percent reduction in mortality due to TB, since 2015...
Yet, it is way lower than what the ideal figure would have been, he said, also pointing out that the country had failed to achieve the target of bringing down the TB mortality rate to 6 per lakh population as targeted for 2023 and last year it stood at 23 deaths per 100,000...
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