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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | With 5.5 lakh deaths in 2013, TB is biggest killer

With 5.5 lakh deaths in 2013, TB is biggest killer

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published Published on Jul 22, 2014   modified Modified on Jul 22, 2014
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: Fewer Indians might be dying from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, but it is estimated that almost 5.5 lakh non-HIV positive people died of TB last year, making it the biggest killer among the three.

Malaria is estimated to have killed about 1.2 lakh people out of over 6 crore cases recorded last year. Though India's fight against HIV/AIDS is said to have made progress, the disease still killed 78,600 Indians, of which 50,000 were males. Over 31,000 new cases were recorded.

The results were published in a study in Lancet journal and was led by the Institute for Health Metric Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. It included 20 experts in India.

Researchers found that the expansion of interventions to prevent mother-to-child tra-nsmissions of HIV, anti-retroviral therapy programme and the promotion of condom use have helped in keeping HIV/AIDS under check. Globally, 30 million people were living with HIV/AIDS, with 1.8 million new cases and 1.3 million deaths.

India was far behind the rest of the world when it came to reducing prevalence of TB. The world prevalence of TB in those without HIV/AIDS in 2013 was 160.2 for every one lakh people but in India, it was 275.3. Globally, there were 7.1 million new TB cases in people without HIV/AIDS and 1.3 million deaths. South Asia, dominated by the population of India, accounted for half of the global TB deaths.

In the case of malaria, India has managed to halve the number of deaths per lakh between 1990 and 2013 to 11, which is still among the highest in the world. In comparison, among India's neighbours, the malaria mortality rate is between one to two deaths per lakh.

India, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo accounted for half the malaria deaths in 2013. Worldwide, there were 164.9 million malaria cases and 854,568 died from it in 2013.


The Times of India, 22 July, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/With-5-5-lakh-deaths-in-2013-TB-is-biggest-killer/articleshow/38833434.cms


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