Thread by @IndiaSpend

India has the world’s most TB cases--2.7 million or 27% of global burden. In 2018, for the 1st time, India had 2.1 mn notified or registered #TB cases--up 16% since 2017 and highest till date: India TB Report 2019 released today. Read on for more details: #EndTB

Despite the progress, there is a gap of 550,000 cases between notified & prevalent #TB cases. Among the notified cases, treatment was initiated for about 1.9 million cases (90%). #EndTB

A quarter of all notifications (540,000) in 2018 were from the private sector--up 44% since 2017 when 383,000 were notified. #EndTB

Uttar Pradesh--India’s most populous state--accounted for 20% of the country’s notified TB cases, followed by Maharashtra (10%), Rajasthan (7%), Madhya Pradesh (7%) and Gujarat (7%). #EndTB

TB incidence in India is declining at a rate of 1-2% every year, and will need to reduce by 10% to meet the National Strategic Plan’s target of eliminating TB by 2030. #EndTB

A fully oral regimen for multidrug resistant (MDR) TB, approved by the World Health Organization in December 2018, was launched today by union health minister @drharshvardhan #EndTB

India has approximately 135,000 drug-resistant TB patients (24% of the total burden). In 2018, 58,345 MDR/Rifampicin resistant (RR) TB patients were notified, this is 40% rise from 38,605 in 2017. #EndTB

16,488 of MDR/RR TB patients were put on shorter TB regime while 2,827 patients received bedaquiline, first drug approved for drug-resistant TB in 40 years. 41 patients received delamanid, another new drug approved for drug-resistant TB in 2018. #EndTB

Read the report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1rR0pA-…