The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services Tuberculosis/Hansen’s Disease Control Program and the Bureau of Family Health and Nursing Services have been recognized as TB Elimination Champ ...

TB can be found in every major city, in every country. Failing to control it threatens global health security. Now is not the ...

Meghalaya TB patients find 'universal Ni-kshay Mitra' in state govt for added support The Centre launched the Ni-kshay Mitra programme in September 2022, urging individuals, private organisations ...

The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, has warned that a single tuberculosis (TB) patient who remains untreated can transmit the disease to 15-20 people within a year.

The collector added that TB patients treated at private facilities should upload information to the NIKSHAY website. Additionally, under the Nikshay Poshan Yojana, patients undergoing TB treatment ...

"At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive ...

with over 7.19 lakh TB patients notified across India. Approximately 2.85 lakh of the notified patients were asymptomatic, who might have otherwise gone undetected without the stratified screening ...

Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, which is observed on March 24 every year, the govt said that Gujarat was given a target to identify and register 1,45,000 TB patients in 2024, and it registered 1 ...

The infection is preventable and usually curable with antibiotics; if treated, most patients will survive. However, despite available treatment, a total of 1.25 million people died from TB in 2023.

Despite this progress, a rise in TB has been reported in 2024 with 26.07 lakh cases. This underscores the need for identifying at-risk patients, improving access to diagnostic services ...

There are many more like her who have defeated TB and are now working with the government to raise awareness about the disease, identify potential patients and help them with the treatment course.