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Prelims: Social Issues
Mains: General Studies Paper II
One World TB Summit
- Recently, the Prime Minister addressed the One World TB Summit and announced initiatives for elimination of Tuberculosis by 2025 .
- One World TB Summit is organised by the Ministry of Health to take forward the Indian vision of ‘One Earth, One Health’ .
- PM announced TB-Mukt Panchayat, and shorter TB Preventive Treatment (TPT).
- India also became the first country to build a functional mathematical model to estimate TB. The mathematical model was presented before the delegates from 40 countries taking part in the 36th Stop TB Partnership Board.
TB Burden:
- According to the WHO, A total of 1.6 million people died from TB in 2021 . Worldwide, TB is the 13th leading cause of death and the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 (above HIV/AIDS)
- TB is preventable and curable and around 85% of people who develop the disease can be successfully treated with a 4/6-month drug regimen.
- India accounts for more than a quarter of the total TB cases across the world.
- According to India TB report 2023: Year 2022 saw notification of 24.2 lakh cases which was an increase of 13%over 2021.
Global Tuberculosis Report 2022
- With 28% cases, India was among the eight countries accounting for more than two-third (or 68.3%) of the total TB patients’ count.
- The other countries were Indonesia (9.2% cases), China (7.4%), the Philippines (7%), Pakistan (5.8%), Nigeria (4.4%), Bangladesh (3.6%) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2.9%).
- Global Issues : Ongoing conflicts across Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East have further exacerbated the situation for vulnerable populations.
- Nearly 82% of global TB deaths among HIV-negative people occurred in the African and South-East Asia regions, with India alone accounting for 36% of such deaths.
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