-The Hindu Business Line The drug was developed by the TB Alliance, funded by various governments and philanthropic sources Hyderabad: The slew of newer TB drugs that have hit the market recently promise to tackle the DISEase better, but the high price can prove a dampener to realise the goal of taming the deadly DISEase on a war footing, feel experts, advocacy groups and medical organisations who are meeting this week in...

-The Indian Express With a virtually unregulated private health system, an increase in notification of TB patients could be heartening for the government. But for the public health system, it is bad news. Over the last month or so, we saw some important documentation on India’s public health. The Annual India Tuberculosis (TB) report was released by the government on September 26. India is now home to about a quarter of...

-Frontline.in Interview with Professor H.P.S. Sachdev, Member of the Technical Advisory Group, CNNS. The objective of the very first nationally conducted Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) was to collect nationally representative data on the nutritional status of preschool, school-going and adolescent children. The survey took on board many technical and medical experts to work on its design. One of them was Professor H.P.S. Sachdev, a Senior Consultant in Paediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology...

-IndiaSpend.com/ Scroll.in Five per cent of Indian children are overweight and 10% pre-diabetic. Even as Indian children continue to grapple with undernutrition, the first-ever national nutrition survey of children and adolescents shows a growing risk of non-communicable DISEases such as diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney DISEase, with many showing early signs of these DISEases. Almost one in 10 children, between 5 years to 9 years, were found to be pre-diabetic and 1% were...

-Frontline.in The first ever Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey exposes the shocking state of Indian children’s nutritional status, but this is apparently not an issue of major concern for the government or the opposition. The findings of one of the largest nutrition surveys ever conducted in the country on the shifting conditions of undernutrition, over-nutrition and obesity expose the disconnect between the one-sided and much-eulogised India growth story and the abysmal state of...