India ranks 14th among 22 high Tuberculosis burden countries globally and the country has 2.6 million cases of Tuberculosis as per the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2014. For Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, the report estimated 61,000 MDR-TB cases in India among notified pulmonary TB cases. Under the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), which was commenced in 2007 and completed country coverage by 2013, action was already taken by India is in consonance with the resolution of anti-microbial resistance passed by the World Health Assembly in May 2015.
Facts About TB
- About one third of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis (TB) bacteria.
- People with weakened immune systems have a much greater risk of falling ill from TB.
- A person living with HIV is about 26 to 31 times more likely to develop active TB.
- The number of people falling ill with TB is declining and the TB death rate dropped 45% since 1990
- Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) does not respond to standard treatments and is difficult and costly to treat
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