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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Data shows success of TB treatment in India is lower than government figures -Shreya Shah

Data shows success of TB treatment in India is lower than government figures -Shreya Shah

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published Published on Nov 4, 2016   modified Modified on Nov 4, 2016
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Only 73% of one kind of TB cases registered for treatment were successfully treated, than the government-reported 84% success rate

Only 73% of one kind of tuberculosis (TB) cases registered for treatment were successfully treated, much lower than the government-reported 84% success rate, according to a new study published in the United States and United Kingdom-based health journal Plos Medicine.

Untreated or partially-treated TB patients may infect others, at least partially nullifying India’s attempts to beat back a disease that claims nearly half a million lives every year. Partially-treated TB could also result in drug-resistant TB, a more potent form of the disease that is expensive to treat.

India has more than a quarter of the world’s tuberculosis burden, with an estimated 2.8 million new cases of TB in the country in 2015. Improving TB diagnosis and care within the government system could reduce the spread of TB and TB deaths – 480,000 in 2015.

The estimates in the study–authored by a group of researchers, and published on October 25–are based on World Health Organization data, data from India’s national TB programme, and reviews of studies published by other researchers. The study analysed TB cases only within the government programme in India because of a lack of information about TB patients in the private sector–estimated to be between 1.19 and 5.24 million patients in 2014.

Analysing where patients “are getting lost” within the government system could help improve the country-wide program for TB control, said Ramnath Subbaraman, the lead author of the study, an infectious disease physician and lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

The study estimated lower rates of treatment success than those reported by the national TB programme in its annual report: 73% of all new smear-positive cases–cases that were positive for the TB bacteria when tested microbiologically – registered for treatment were successfully treated, compared to 84%, as reported by the government in the 2015 annual report for TB.

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Business Standard, 4 November, 2016, http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/data-shows-success-of-tb-treatment-in-india-is-lower-than-government-figures-116110400332_1.html


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