Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs but can spread to other organs. We got in ...

It has been 20 years since Walter Thomas, 60, was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB). In all those years, he has been visiting the hospital weekly to be tested and get injections for multi-drug ...

US aid cuts have left essential diagnostic services and transport networks in jeopardy. Without support, the country faces a ...

System and community-level actions that firmly place the needs of people with tuberculosis in the front and centre are vital ...

Agra: Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in India between 2022 and 2024, with 18,22,453 ...

A total of 1.36 crore people were screened for tuberculosis. Of the suspected cases, nearly 3.8 lakh people were tested by ...

TB Elimination Campaign, launched in December, highlights the pivotal role of mobile sputum carriers in rapid TB detection ...

TB Elimination campaign launched on December 7, last year nationwide and in Meghalaya has accelerated TB detection, treatment and awareness. According to Mebankmen Kharkongor, State Coordinator- ...

Calls are being made for tighter screenings at Immigration checkpoints and detention centres with tuberculosis (TB) cases ...

World TB Day I spent a day accompanying TB affected street activists (TASA) - women who help homeless women and female migrant workers in urban poor localities of India rsquo;s capital Delhi and help ...

According to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Rajat Kumar Chaurasia, "With the help of these portable X-ray machines we do at least 150 tests in a day though it has capacity for more than 250 ...

They are exposed to sputum samples, and when they successfully identify TB-positive samples ... They are fed during and after testing. Each morning, APOPO staff collect test samples from Directly ...