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Annual India TB report 2024
April 1 , 2024
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- India’s efforts are resulted in a decline of 16% in TB incidence (new cases emerging each year) and a 18% reduction in mortality due to TB, since 2015.
- There were only 2.3 lakh missing cases in 2023, as compared to 3.2 lakh the year before, the report states.
- This gap has been reducing over the years, especially with the government’s Ni-kshay portal tracking all TB patients.
- Nearly 33% or 8.4 lakh of the 25.5 lakh cases reported in 2023 came from the private sector.
- To compare, only 1.9 lakh cases were reported by the private sector in 2015.
- The estimated incidence of TB in 2023 increased slightly to 27.8 lakh from the previous year’s estimate of 27.4 lakh.
- The mortality due to the infection remained the same at 3.2 lakh as per the data.
- India’s TB mortality was dropped from 4.94 lakhs in 2021 to 3.31 lakhs in 2022.
- The number of cases reported in a year also went down from 29.4 lakh in 2021 as per the previous method to 27.4 lakh in 2022.
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