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Elimination of TB by 2025
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- India’s goal to achieve rapid decline in the burden of tuberculosis (TB) morbidity and mortality, while working towards the elimination of TB in the country by 2025.
- TB kills an estimated 480,000 Indians every year or over 1,400 patients every day.
- With an estimated 2.64 million cases in 2021, India accounts for about 25% of the world’s TB burden.
- The mortality rate, excluding HIV co-infected individuals, was approximately 450,000 in the same year
- It is highlighting the severe impact of TB on the country’s public health land scape.
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