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Date of Publication: September 18, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2024.060
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Letter
The dire struggle: India’s unfulfilled promise to eliminate tuberculosis
Abstract:
In 2023, as per the World Health Organization (WHO), India emerged as the country with the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases, reporting 2.8 million cases and contributing to 27% of the global TB burden [1]. Worldwide, there were 7.5 million newly diagnosed TB cases in 2022, marking the highest figure since global monitoring began in 1995 [1]. Although an estimated 410,000 people worldwide developed multidrug-resistant TB, less than half of them commenced treatment within the same year [1].
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