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Making India TB-Free by 2025
Tuberculosis is a disease of immense public health importance as it inflicts a large quantum of socioeconomic cost on the society. The honorable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi pledged that India would achieve its goal of being TB-free by 2025 and urged the formulation of PPIs to accomplish this. Sensedose Technologies was conceptualized to aid the population of India in achieving this goal.
India is still grouped with the sub-Saharan countries when it comes to the efficacy of dealing with the disease and experts are not optimistic about India’s prospects of achieving TB elimination. The average prevalence of all forms of tuberculosis in India is estimated to be at 5.05 people per 1000, prevalence of smear-positive cases 2.27 people per 1000 and average annual incidence of smear-positive cases at 84 per 1,00,000 annually. Recent RNTCP surveys also point at the serious escalation of disease burden in a tribal population groups. Some epidemiologists forecast a rise of 20 per cent in incidence in the next 20 years, for India, with a cumulative rise of 46 million cases of tuberculosis during that period, largely as a consequence of HIV epidemic. These numbers are staggering and this begs the question - why is India failing at providing its citizens with TB-related healthcare?
TB has been curable for several decades now - great strides have been made in innovations for newer diagnostic and drug delivery mechanisms. All we need now is a surge in our actions to reduce the TB burden dramatically. To achieve our goals all our supporters and stakeholders need to work in synergy and all available resources need to be put to use in a cohesive effort to facilitate TB control.
