Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has stressed on the necessity to make
a mass movement for elimination of TB with strategized advocacy,
thought leadership, disruptive social entrepreneurship, powerful,
societal and political commitment. He was addressing the 33rd Stop TB
Partnership Board meet in New Delhi through Video Conference yesterday.
Dr Harsh Vardhan highlighted India’s “TB Harega, Desh Jeetega” campaign that targets to realize the Sustainable Development Goal target associated with TB by 2025, five years before the worldwide target of 2030. He said, India had nearly trebled efforts on increasing TB notifications and had managed to shut the gap in ‘Missing million TB cases’.
Taking stock of the setback caused by COVID-19, he noted that in the amount from January to October 2020, only 14.5 lakh TB cases are notified which is 29 per cent less than an equivalent period in 2019, with the decline being over 35 to 40 per cent in some States like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu , Andhra Pradesh , Manipur and Goa.
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