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Ushering in Jan Andolan to End TB
Indian Academy of Pediatrics,
effective systems have been
operationalized in over 350 high-
burden districts across the country
to ensure that standardised and
quality care is provided to all
patients, irrespective of the source
of care. This initiative, along with
important policy adjustments, led
to an exponential improvement
in TB case notifications from the
private sector (from around 1 lakh
Dr. Vinod Paul
cases in 2014 to 6.6 lakh in 2019).
Member, NITI Aayog Further, there has been a focus
on upgrading and expanding
our diagnostic capacity. Today,
there are over 3,700 advanced
In 2018, Prime Minister Shri molecular diagnostic labs.
Narendra Modi gave a clarion Indigenously-developed tools
call to eliminate TB in the are in place in every district of the
country by the year 2025 – five country taking diagnostic services
years ahead of the global 2030 close to the community.
timeline set under the Sustainable The Government has also
Development Goals. Following this, been swift in introducing newer,
we witnessed the launch of a truly safer and shorter drug regimens
patient-centric, comprehensive such as bedaquiline and
and responsive National Strategic delamanid, leading to a significant
Plan to achieve TB Mukt Bharat. improvement in treatment
This led to the introduction outcomes among drug-resistant
of multiple interventions that TB patients. The programme also
marked a paradigm shift in the understood the need to increase
way the programme enables the the ambit of support available
prevention, detection, treatment to a TB patient, and the Ni-kshay
and follow-up of TB patients. Poshan Yojana was started to
It was recognized that a support nutrition through direct
large number of patients receive cash benefit transfers to all
care in the private sector but patients on treatment.
are not connected well to the TB India is among the very few
programme systems, hampering countries that track the entire
effective care. To address this, cascade of care for each TB
in partnership with professional patient digitally, and employ
organizations, notably the Indian electronic systems to transmit
Medical Association and the information from the ground
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