Approximately 7% of all reported tuberculosis (TB) cases each year are recurrent, occurring among people who have had TB in the recent or distant past. TB recurrence is particularly common in India, which has the largest TB burden worldwide. Although pat
WHO’s latest Global TB Report says that 2018 also saw a reduction in the number of TB deaths: 1.5 million people died from TB in 2018, down from 1.6 million in 2017. The number of new cases of TB has been declining steadily in recent years. However, the burden remains high among low...
A series of papers indicates that 15% of adult TB cases worldwide are already attributable to diabetes. These diabetes-associated cases correspond to over 1 million cases a year, with more than 40% occurring in India and China alone. If diabetes rates continue to rise out of control, the p...
The Global Tuberculosis Report from the World Health Organization estimated that 10.6 million people suffered from tuberculosis (TB) in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020. Indonesia has the third highest incidence of tuberculosis in the world after India and China, according to the Global Tubercul...
India and China are implementing countrywide MDR-TB programs, and the future of MDR-TB may be greatly influenced by the success or failure of these programs. Epidemiology references 1. World Health Organization (WHO): Global Tuberculosis Report 2021. Accessed on 4/17/2022. 2. Centers for ...
Household contacts >5 years treated for LTBI, 2018-2022 20 million 0.32 million (1.6%) Annual funding needs 13 billion USD 5.3 billion USD Annual Research funding for TB 2 billion USD 901 million USD Sourced from the WHO Global TB Report 2021. While it may be appropriate to accord the bla...
Whether multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is less transmissible than drug-susceptible (DS-)TB on a population level is uncertain. Even in the absence of a genetic fitness cost, the transmission potential of individuals with MDR-TB may vary by inf
Furthermore, the notable achievement of high TB treatment completion rates in India, as evidenced by an 85% rate reported in a recent annual report [30], might clarify the absence of an apparent link between catastrophic costs and unfavorable TB treatment outcomes in our study setting. We wish...
NTEP. National Tuberculosis Elimination Program Annual Status Report. India. Available online:https://tbcindia.gov.in/index1.php?lang=1&level=1&sublinkid=4160&lid=2807(accessed on 12 May 2022). Arinaminpathy, N.; Batra, D.; Khaparde, S.; Vualnam, T.; Maheshwari, N.; Sharma, L.;...
While Tokyo is the largest city on a global level, with a total of more than 37 million residents, the majority of the most populous cities in the world are in the two most populated countries, China and India. Among these, we have 5 metropolises in China, Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing,...