While 26,90,000 people had TB in India, out of which 19,90,000 were notified. According to the report, TB kills 1.5 million every year and is the leading killer of people living with HIV/AIDD and a major cause of deaths due to anti-microbial resistance.India also had maximum number of drug resistant TB which is 27 per cent of a total 130,000 drug-resistant TB cases while China had 14 per cent such cases. But let’s be honest -- TB is not still not falling nearly fast enough in India, progress is still too slow to meet the targets – and if we don ´t end TB in India we can’t hope to end TB globally”.The report also saw reduction in the total number of deaths. As per the report 1.5 million people died from TB in 2018, down from 1.6 million in 2017. “The number of new cases of TB has been declining steadily in recent years.

Source: Economic Times October 17, 2019 17:26 UTC