Social issues world Habitat Day

About Tuberculosis (TB)

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  TB is a disease caused by bacteria “Mycobacterium tuberculosis” that most often affect the lungs.
  
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  The disease is spread from person to person through the air. It commonly affects the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body.
  
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  It is the second biggest killer disease worldwide next only to HIV/AIDS. It can be completely cured with proper and regular medication.
  

Effort To Eliminate TB So Far

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  The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) has treated 10 million patients,however, the rate of decline has been slow.
  
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  Providing universal access to early diagnosis and treatment and improving case detection were the main goals of the national strategic plan 2012-17.
  
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  The government made three significant important policy decisions to improve disease surveillance: Making TB a notifiable disease (May 2012); including anti-TB drugs under Schedule-H1 (August 2013); and developing a case-based, web-based TB surveillance system.
  
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  Going by the current rate of decline, India is far from reaching the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals — reducing the number of deaths by 90% and TB incidence by 80% compared with 2015.
  
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  The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in its national strategic plan for tuberculosis elimination (2017-2025), has set a highly ambitious goal of “achieving a rapid decline in burden of TB, morbidity and mortality while working towards elimination of TB by 2025.”