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INDIA TO GET $170 MILLION TO FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS
August 24, 2006
The World Bank has approved $170 million in funding to assist India in combating the spread of tuberculosis.
The Second National Tuberculosis Control Program will aim to achieve 70 percent case detection and 85 percent cure rate, and for the zones where the directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) strategy has been in place for five or more years, to decrease the incidence of smear-positive tuberculosis.
The World Health Organization-recommended DOTS strategy includes providing a steady supply of standardized, short-course treatment regimens and fixed-dose drug combinations free-of-charge to tuberculosis patients. While emphasis of the first program was on introducing DOTS in a uniform manner across the country, the new program will target the states that have below-average performance.
Approximately 40 percent of the adult population in India is infected with tuberculosis, causing more than 1.8 million new cases and 400,000 deaths every year. Of the new cases, nearly 800,000 are infectious, and each of these infects on average 10 people.
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