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

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.

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

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

In Telangana, recent initiatives under the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) have taken a more aggressive approach to screening and treatment. A 100-day intensive campaign organised from ...

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 ...

More than a century later, scientists continue refining TB diagnosis methods and treatment strategies, some of which are in these four ACS journal articles. Reporters can request free access to ...

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 ...

The Meghalaya government has roped in traditional healers to intensify screening, detection and treatment of ... of the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), Meghalaya.

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) ...