Launch of Tribal TB Initiative
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- ‘Tribal TB Initiative’ in pursuit of TB Mukt Bharat was launched recently.
- Ministry: Ministry of Health
- A Guidance Note on Joint Action Plan for Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination, a Special Edition of Tribal Ministry’s Publication ‘ALEKH’ on TB, and a document on Tribal Tuberculosis (TB) Initiative was also released.
- Over 104 million tribal population lives in India, across 705 tribes, accounting for 6 % of India’s population.
- 177 tribal districts were identified as high priority districts where physical remoteness, malnutrition, poor living conditions and lack of awareness contribute to the vulnerability of the tribal population to TB.
- Initially, the activities of the joint plan will focus on 161 districts across 18 identified States.
- This would involve periodic TB active case finding drives and provision of TB Preventive Therapy (IPT) to identified vulnerable population and develop long term mechanisms for vulnerability
- Lakshadweep and district of Badgam in Jammu and Kashmir have been declared TB Free on World TB Day
- The government has already increased the Budget allocation for TB in India a four-fold in the last 5
Key takeaways
- Between January and February 2020, there were 6% more cases reported than in
- As a result of the lockdown, notifications in the public sector fell by 38% and 44% in the private sector in April and
- Of the reported 24.04 lakh TB cases in 2019, treatment success was 82%, mortality rate was 4%.
- The approved budget toward the programme was decreased from ₹3,333 crores in 2019-20 to ₹3,110 crore in 2020-21.
- The report said 20,892 (42%) of patients were initiated on a shorter MDR-TB regimen at the time of
- This is a significant decline from