Mumbai seems to be battling HIV and TB really well. With the two diseases forming a deadly combo it was one of the leading causes of deaths in patients. The two diseases are finally coming under control in Mumbai. The city has …
According to Press Information Bureau, tuberculosis in India continues to take a toll of 1,000 per day or one every minute. It is estimated that there are 14 million TB cases in our country out of which 3.5 million are sputum …
Mumbai’s health system was lauded by representatives of the American Centre for Disease Control and USAIDS. Six months ago the city was under the scanner for a tuberculosis epidemic. The TB programme review team, showed …
A recent study suggests that people who have been afflicted with tuberculosis are often affected with diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes in persons with TB is almost double that of the general populace. A survey of 827 …
The government has banned the manufacture and sale of serodiagnostic tests (diagnosis based on blood serum) for tuberculosis. These tests are deemed to give ‘inaccurate results based on poor quality and grossly insufficient …
