India accounts for 26% of the world’s TB burden and 27% of global multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, which underscore the challenges facing the country’s National TB Elimination Programme
The researchers found that 93.7 per cent of providers believed AI could improve TB diagnosis accuracy, while only 69.4 per cent were willing to adopt the technology
While India has committed to eliminate TB by 2025, five years ahead of the global target of 2030, the country is currently facing a large burden of the most infectious disease, the SATB wrote in the letter.
New Delhi: While the world is still reeling with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, India’s fight against tuberculosis (TB) has encountered setbacks after decades of gains. Despite the brief decline in TB notifications observed around the months corresponding to India’s two major Covid-19 waves, the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) has reported a rise […]
