The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) was awarded 2017 Kochon Prize for building tradition of excellence in Tuberculosis (TB) research and development. It had emerged winner from...
The TB-free India Campaign is a national public health movement aimed at eliminating tuberculosis in India through strengthened detection, treatment, prevention, and community engagement strategies. As one of...
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched a door-to-door campaign for 15-days in the country for early diagnosis, detection and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) to...
Health ministers, NGOs, and private sector representatives from 120 countries have adopted Moscow Declaration on the sidelines of the first WHO Global Ministerial Conference. The declaration calls for...
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most persistent and serious public health challenges in India. It is a communicable bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, primarily affecting the...
According to the Global TB Report 2017 released by World Health Organisation (WHO), India has topped list of seven countries, accounting for 64% of the over 10 million...
India is battling multidrug-resistant TB, with about 2.5% of all new TB cases in the country being resistant to Rifampicin, or to both Rifampicin and isoniazid – the...
The World Tuberculosis Day (WTD) is observed every year on March 24 to raise public awareness about the global epidemic of Tuberculosis (TB) and efforts to eliminate the...
India along with other countries in the South East Asian Region have signed World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Call To end Tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 in the region. It...
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis infection can be of two kinds-latent and active. Latent tuberculosis is not contagious and do not...
