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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Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan talks about his survival story of Tuberculosis

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https://www.freepressjournal.in/entertainment/amitabh-bachchan-opens-up-about-battle-with-tuberculosis-says-i-am-associated-with-tb-campaign-because-i-was-a-patient-myself

Mumbai is readying a pilot project to target latent tuberculosis. The civil administration in Mumbai firmly believes that ‘prevention is better than cure’ and is working on a plan to begin scouting for persons with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI).

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https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/tackling-a-silent-killer/article23468893.ece

Long travel to access diagnosis and treatment for TB often pushes patients to drop out mid-way, says a forthcoming study How far do tuberculosis (TB) patients travel in the course of treatment?

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https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/going-the-distance/article26293124.ece

India is the country with the highest burden of TB. The World Health Organisation (WHO) TB statistics for India for 2016 give an estimated incidence figure of 2.79 million cases of TB for India. The TB incidence is the number of new cases of active TB disease during a certain time period (usually a year).

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https://www.tbfacts.org/tb-statistics-india/