Global efforts are derailed by this pandemic to   tackle Tuberculosis. Following national lockdown the weekly and monthly number of TB case notifications fell by more than 50% between the end of March and late April.

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The WHO has released a multisectoral accountability framework to accelerate progress to end the TB epidemic. The framework was requested by the World Health Assembly and the UN General Assembly in 2018.

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https://www.who.int/tb/features_archive/multisectoral-accountability-framework-to-end-TB/en/

GENEVA - Global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have saved an estimated 53 million lives since 2000 and reduced the TB mortality rate by 37%, according to the Global TB Report 2017, released by WHO.

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https://m.reliefweb.int/report/2299404

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will soon introduce a shorter regimen of medication for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients. The standard treatment regimen goes up to nearly two years.

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https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/short-course-regimen-for-mdr-tb-at-civic-hospitals/article23376041.ece

An artificial intelligence tool to interpret chest X-rays shows promise in Bengaluru trials Reading a chest X-ray is tough. So much so that even radiologists get it right only around 70-80% of the time. What if they got help from ‘machine eyes’?

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https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/in-ai-radiology-finds-a-new-ally/article24362309.ece