2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau

TB Harega Desh Jeetega Campaign

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare launched the new TB Harega Desh Jeetega Campaign, along with the National TB Prevalence Survey.

TB is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among People Living with HIV (PLHIV).

To achieving TB-free India by 2025.
The new TB campaign aims to improve and expand the reach of TB care services across the country, by 2022.

Three strong pillars: a clinical approach, public health component and active community participation.
Elements of the campaign comprise private sector engagement, patient support, and political and administrative commitment at all levels.
The Government is committed to ensuring all patients, receive free-of-cost, high-quality TB care.
Introduction of pivotal initiatives that are changing the way of diagnosing, treat and prevent TB.

As per the TB India report 2019, 21.5 lakh cases of tuberculosis were notified to the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in 2018 — a 16% increase from 2017.
India accounted for a quarter of the Global TB burden with an estimated 27 lakh new cases in the year.
Of the total notifications, 25% (5.4 lakh) cases were from the private sector.
Among the notified, treatment was initiated for about 19.1 lakh cases (90%) across both public and private sectors.
The majority of the affected individuals (89%) were in the age group 15-69.

STATE BY STATE

Uttar Pradesh, reported 4.2 lakh cases, accounting for 20% of all notifications (187 cases/lakh population).
Between 2017 and 2018, Haryana saw a large increase in the number of cases.
Cases increased significantly in Rajasthan and UP, as well as Delhi.
Odisha witnessed a decline in the number of notified cases from over 67,000 in 2017 to 50,244 in 2018.
The Union Territories of Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands too witnessed a drop.
The two UTs of Delhi and Chandigarh had the highest number of notified patients per lakh population, at 417 and 468, respectively.

TB is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV, and HIV co-infection rates among incident TB patients is estimated to be 3% — 86,000 HIV-associated TB patients are emerging annually.
The mortality in this group is very high, and 11,000 people with HIV die every year due to TB.
India is the third highest HIV-burden country in the world, with an adult prevalence of 0.22%.
People living with HIV are at 21 times higher risk of developing TB.
Nearly 25% of all deaths among people living with HIV are estimated to be due to TB.

NIKSHAY POSHAN YOJANA

In April 2018, the government launched the Nikshay Poshan Yojana. It is a direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme to provide nutritional support to TB patients.
Under the scheme, TB patients have been receiving Rs. 500 per month for the entire duration of treatment.

Source: PIB