In a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, the addition of navitoclax to the standard TB treatment significantly increased ...

Patel also highlighted the new initiatives under NTEP. She said that "a shorter and safer oral Bedaquiline-containing drug-resistant TB treatment regimen has been rolled out across all states and ...

India has set an ambitious target to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, five years ahead of the global sustainable ...

Following the success of recent clinical trials, several major infectious disease agencies updated treatment guidance for ...

In several communities, a lack of scientific awareness about the disease’s prognosis and transmission fuels misconceptions ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets regarding TB (baseline 2015) include 80% reduction in incidence. The NTEP focuses on early detection, effective treatment, and prevention.

The number of notified paediatric tuberculosis (TB) cases has increased by 38 per cent in children aged up to 14 years in the ...

We need TB Champions in the community. The National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) provides free diagnosis and treatment. They tell people what medicines to take, the duration of treatment ...

Day, paediatricians across India reinforced their commitment to eradicating TB by 2030. Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP), under national president Dr Vasant Khalatkar, who is from Nagpur, ...

World TB Day is celebrated every year on March 24 in an effort towards the disease's eradication. In 2018, India launched the 'TB Free India Campaign' with the goal of eradicating tuberculosis by 2025 ...