The Latest Breaking News from Tuberculosis

With under-nutrition the most prevalent risk factor for tuberculosis, what has an Indian trial shown? How was the trial carried out? Can weight gain lead to reduction in cases and mortality? 

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to global health. In 2019, it caused over 1.27 million deaths worldwide – and it’s projected that antimicrobial resistance (which includes bacterial resistance to antibiotics) may contribute to ten million deaths per year by 2050.

Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted public health efforts in the U.S. and globally, tuberculosis cases had been steadily falling for decades.

A case has of the potentially fatal infection has been confirmed following a routine TB screening test carried out for precaution.

The prevalence of HIV positivity among Tuberculosis (TB) patients in Karnataka is the third highest in the country after Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, according to data from National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) outlined in the India TB Report 2023.

Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor that increases the incidence and severity of tuberculosis. Also, DM and TB co-infections adversely affect TB treatment outcomes in a patient.

India has set a target of eradicating tuberculosis (TB) by 2025 and 'Ni-kshay Mitra' has taken charge of this movement against the disease, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his monthly radio programme 'Mann ki Baat' on Sunday. Read further on Dynamite News:

Recent studies have found that the length of time tuberculosis patients need to stay on their regimen can be reduced from six to four months. India however is yet to implement any policy that takes advantage of this option, even as its goal to eliminate TB by 2025 approaches the…

Rachael Bletchly says tuberculosis, a 9,000-year-old disease, has never been conquered and still kills one person in the world every 20 seconds - so urgent action is needed