Tuberculosis Free India
- All
- News
- Videos
-
Google Collaborates With Apollo to Bring AI-Powered Early Disease Screening to India
Google Health has announced a new collaboration with Apollo Radiology International for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered early disease screening in India. The announcement came during the company’s annual The Check Up event. Under this partnership, the tech giant will offer its AI stack for early disease screening to Apollo. The focus will be...
-
Taking A Rights Based Approach To TB Care To Make India TB Free
TB continues to impact the lives of over 28 lakh people, with 4 lakh people succumbing to the disease each year! Lack of awareness about TB, breeds and reinforces stigma and discrimination that acts as barriers to those who need to seek care
-
Centre Will Achieve Goal Of TB-Free India By 2025: Harsh Vardhan
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday expressed confidence that the government will achieve the goal of tuberculosis (TB) free India by 2025 as resource allocation for the disease has witnessed a four-fold increase in the last five years.
-
To End Tuberculosis In India By 2025, Children Have To Be Free Of TB First
Jackson from the US was six-weeks-old when he first showed symptoms of Tuberculosis or TB. It took another six weeks and three doctors before he was diagnosed with TB. The delayed diagnosis nearly cost him his life. Jackson's case was highlighted at the release of a roadmap towards ending childhood TB by 10 global TB and child agencies in New York ...
-
UN Political Declaration Against TB: Time To Translate Words To Action
It was thus a moment of triumph when the United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) called for the first-ever High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB to endorse a political declaration that aims to strengthen action and investments to end tuberculosis.
-
Experts On What’s Stopping India To Become TB Free
India has the highest Tuberculosis burden in the world. Of the 10 million TB cases reported worldwide, over 2 million are from India. Maximum drug-resistant TB patients are also found in India. The government aims to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025, ahead of the WHO targets. Experts, however, opine that the target is devoid of any understanding ...
-
Kerala Health Organisations Call For 100 Per Cent Smoke Free Places
Health organisations in Kerala have called for 100 percent tobacco smoke-free public places as the world "unites to end Tuberculosis (TB)" on World Tuberculosis Day, today.
-
No Right To Health In New Policy. But It Tries To Make Indians Live Longer
The Narendra Modi government's new National Health Policy announced on Thursday pledges to more than double public spending on health so that people live longer, give the poor free access to medicines and diagnostics in state-run hospitals and set targets for control of diseases such as tuberculosis that kills over 5,000 people every day.
-
Supreme Court Orders Daily TB Treatment For Millions With Free Tablets
Millions of tuberculosis patients in India will receive daily treatment after the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to change the current dosing practice amid activist claims it was endangering lives.
-
'They Hear TB and Ask Me To leave’: What TB-Free India Goal Is Up Against
Tuba Khan is a community volunteer in Delhi’s Turkman Gate. She is helping with the Axshya project – a civil society initiative that supports National TB programme (RNTCP) to improve its reach, visibility and effectiveness. Tuba goes door to door inquiring whether a family member has symptoms like cough, fever, fatigue and loss of appetite. TB...
-
I Am A Tuberculosis Survivor, Hope India Will Soon Be Free From It: Amitabh Bachchan
"I am a tuberculosis survivor" and that is why "I took up" the cause of spreading awareness about the disease, actor Amitabh Bachchan today said ahead of World Tuberculosis Day.
-
India Should Be Wary of Importing Polio From Pakistan, US Disease Control Chief Says
While India has been polio-free since last year, it should be on the guard against importing the wild poliovirus from neighbouring Pakistan, says Dr Thomas Frieden, head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
-
Google Collaborates With Apollo to Bring AI-Powered Early Disease Screening to India
Google Health has announced a new collaboration with Apollo Radiology International for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered early disease screening in India. The announcement came during the company’s annual The Check Up event. Under this partnership, the tech giant will offer its AI stack for early disease screening to Apollo. The focus will be...
-
Taking A Rights Based Approach To TB Care To Make India TB Free
TB continues to impact the lives of over 28 lakh people, with 4 lakh people succumbing to the disease each year! Lack of awareness about TB, breeds and reinforces stigma and discrimination that acts as barriers to those who need to seek care
-
Centre Will Achieve Goal Of TB-Free India By 2025: Harsh Vardhan
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday expressed confidence that the government will achieve the goal of tuberculosis (TB) free India by 2025 as resource allocation for the disease has witnessed a four-fold increase in the last five years.
-
To End Tuberculosis In India By 2025, Children Have To Be Free Of TB First
Jackson from the US was six-weeks-old when he first showed symptoms of Tuberculosis or TB. It took another six weeks and three doctors before he was diagnosed with TB. The delayed diagnosis nearly cost him his life. Jackson's case was highlighted at the release of a roadmap towards ending childhood TB by 10 global TB and child agencies in New York ...
-
UN Political Declaration Against TB: Time To Translate Words To Action
It was thus a moment of triumph when the United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) called for the first-ever High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB to endorse a political declaration that aims to strengthen action and investments to end tuberculosis.
-
Experts On What’s Stopping India To Become TB Free
India has the highest Tuberculosis burden in the world. Of the 10 million TB cases reported worldwide, over 2 million are from India. Maximum drug-resistant TB patients are also found in India. The government aims to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025, ahead of the WHO targets. Experts, however, opine that the target is devoid of any understanding ...
-
Kerala Health Organisations Call For 100 Per Cent Smoke Free Places
Health organisations in Kerala have called for 100 percent tobacco smoke-free public places as the world "unites to end Tuberculosis (TB)" on World Tuberculosis Day, today.
-
No Right To Health In New Policy. But It Tries To Make Indians Live Longer
The Narendra Modi government's new National Health Policy announced on Thursday pledges to more than double public spending on health so that people live longer, give the poor free access to medicines and diagnostics in state-run hospitals and set targets for control of diseases such as tuberculosis that kills over 5,000 people every day.
-
Supreme Court Orders Daily TB Treatment For Millions With Free Tablets
Millions of tuberculosis patients in India will receive daily treatment after the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to change the current dosing practice amid activist claims it was endangering lives.
-
'They Hear TB and Ask Me To leave’: What TB-Free India Goal Is Up Against
Tuba Khan is a community volunteer in Delhi’s Turkman Gate. She is helping with the Axshya project – a civil society initiative that supports National TB programme (RNTCP) to improve its reach, visibility and effectiveness. Tuba goes door to door inquiring whether a family member has symptoms like cough, fever, fatigue and loss of appetite. TB...
-
I Am A Tuberculosis Survivor, Hope India Will Soon Be Free From It: Amitabh Bachchan
"I am a tuberculosis survivor" and that is why "I took up" the cause of spreading awareness about the disease, actor Amitabh Bachchan today said ahead of World Tuberculosis Day.
-
India Should Be Wary of Importing Polio From Pakistan, US Disease Control Chief Says
While India has been polio-free since last year, it should be on the guard against importing the wild poliovirus from neighbouring Pakistan, says Dr Thomas Frieden, head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
