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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India topped in new TB cases in 2014

India topped in new TB cases in 2014

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published Published on Oct 30, 2015   modified Modified on Oct 30, 2015
-PTI

United Nations: India recorded the largest number of tuberculosis cases in the world last year, according to a report by the World Health Organisation.

The WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2015 said 1.5 million people died in 2014 from the disease, which ranks alongside HIV as a leading killer worldwide.

The report, released Wednesday, said nearly 58 per cent of the 9.6 million new TB cases in 2014 were from East Asia and Western Pacific regions.

India had 23 per cent of the new TB cases reported worldwide, Indonesia 10 per cent and China 10 per cent. Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa also had high numbers of TB cases last year.

Nearly 1.5 million people died from the disease last year, including 140,000 children, according to the report.

”Most of these deaths could have been prevented. The disease ranks alongside HIV as a leading killer worldwide,” it said.

Roughly 90 per cent of total TB deaths (among HIV- negative and HIV-positive people) and 80 per cent of TB deaths among HIV-negative people occurred in the African and South-East Asia Regions in 2014.

India and Nigeria accounted for s third of global TB deaths (both including and excluding those among HIV-positive people), the report added.

The target of halving the rate compared with 1990 was achieved in three WHO regions – the Region of the Americas, the South-East Asia Region and the Western Pacific Region – and in nine high-burden countries of Brazil, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, India, Myanmar, the Philippines, Uganda and Vietnam.

The report said intensified efforts, such as those already being made in India, are needed to ensure that all cases are detected, notified to national surveillance systems, and treated according to international standards.

The Telegraph, 29 October, 2015, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1151029/jsp/frontpage/story_50294.jsp#.VjOf6is1t_m


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