TB may soon become a bigger problem than HIV

24th Of March each year is celebrated as World TB Day. Its a irony that in India in the metros we are fighting menace of Obesity, Hypertension, and Diabetes so called lifestyle disease and at the other end we are fighting with deadly Tuberculosis (India carries the highest burden of TB, accounting for one-fifth of the global incidence)too.
Why do I call it deadly, when the successful treatment options are available.
Well the newer Koch's or Tb infection are much serious and add to it co existing infection of HIV. This combination of infection is a threat world wide.

There is a growing belief among experts that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR), and its deadlier cousin, the extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR), may soon become bigger threats than HIV-AIDS.

In Mumbai, till 2008, about 30,606 patients were enrolled for the Direct Observation Treatment (DOTS) Plus project under the RNTCP (Revised National TB Control programme). Of these, approximately three per cent were suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.

And worse, in India we do not have many accredited laboratory to confirm cases of MDR and XDR TB.

Jai Ho

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