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75 tribal districts – TB interventions
August 31 , 2022
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- To mark 75 years’ of India’s Independence, 75 high burden tribal districts have been selected for focused interventions.
- It aims to make India TB-free by 2025.
- The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and TB division of Ministry of Health and Family welfare organized a national conclave recently to disseminate the learnings of the 100-day Aashwasan Campaign under ‘Tribal TB Initiative’.
- Tribal TB Initiative is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Central TB Division, Ministry of Health.
- It is supported by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as technical partner and Piramal Swasthya as implementing partner.
- The Aashwasan Campaign started in January, 2022 for active case finding for TB in 174 tribal districts of India, under the ambit of the Tribal TB Initiative.
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