A heavy burden

In 2016, over 95 per cent of TB deaths happened in low- and middle-income countries

Like COVID, TB is a pandemic and must be treated as an emergency

If we do not behave like TB is a global health emergency, we will continue to experience unacceptable suffering from a disease that has killed …

Now, TB test recommended for COVID-19 patients in case of persisting cough

Experts hail decision as opportunity to increase detection of both COVID-19 and TB

COVID-19: India to miss TB case notification target for 2021

India contributed the biggest drop in global case notifications last year

India, Indonesia and the Philippines account for over 60% drop in tuberculosis reporting in 2020 and 2021

WHO report finds TB still world’s second leading cause of death from a single infectious agent

World Tuberculosis Day: At 316 per lakh, India’s TB prevalence higher than WHO estimations

Gujarat has the lowest burden of all forms of TB, while Kerala is the lowest in pulmonary TB, according to the National TB Prevalence Survey 2019-2021

‘Making TB a notifiable disease will benefit patients’

Tuberculosis kills around 1,000 people each day in India and more than two million people are affected by the bacterial disease. This makes India …

Should we worry about the long-term impact of the novel coronavirus?

Pathogens differ in their ability to affect multiple organs but they all invariably cause long-term effects