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The World Health Organisation has released new guidelines for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis with an all-oral regimen, but patients’ rights advocates in India are concerned about implement...

Undernutrition accounts for a much bigger share of India’s counts of new tuberculosis patients than hitherto assumed, health researchers have said after an exercise that tweaked a single word &m...

India’s first tuberculosis survey in nearly 60 years, India TB Report 2022, has arrived at an alarming conclusion — the prevalence rate of TB in the country is 312 cases per 100,000 p...

India’s first tuberculosis survey in 60 years has revealed a prevalence rate of 312 per 100,000 population, significantly higher than its TB elimination programme’s milestone target of 170...

Duare Sarkar camps will now have vaccination centres and other health check facilities, the state health department has decided. The move is aimed at vaccinating a part of the reluctant section of th...

Tuberculosis killed 504,000 people in India in 2020, a 13 per cent increase over the previous year, the World Health Organisation said in a report released on Thursday, flagging a global reversal of p...

Covid-19 can make a person more susceptible to developing active tuberculosis as it is an "opportunistic" infection like black fungus but currently there is not enough evidence to suggest TB...

Exclusion is not uncommon in India’s healthcare system. Worryingly, this kind of exclusion has been exacerbated by the pandemic. A pertinent example to illustrate this point would be the slowing...

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