New Delhi: The global tuberculosis report 2020 shows that “In 2019, the world had recorded around one crore cases of TB (Tuberculosis) and India had reported 26% cases of total TB cases.”
As per the report the TB incidence rate in India is 193 per one lakh population, with the total number of cases estimated at 26,40,000.
In 2019, Many Asian countries had recorded TB cases in noticeable numbers. Out of around one crore cases – 8.5% cases were recorded in Indonesia, 8.4% in China, 6% in Philippines, 5.7% in Pakistan and 3.6% in Bangladesh. African country Nigeria and South Africa recorded 4.4% and 3.6% TB cases respectively.
According to the report, there were an estimated 12 lakh TB deaths among HIV-negative people in 2019 (a reduction from 17 lakh in 2000), and an additional 208,000 deaths among HIV-positive people (a reduction from 6,78,000 in 2000) and Static details of the report clears that males aged over 15 years accounted for 56 percent of those who developed TB in 2019 and women accounted for 32 percent. Children less than 15 remained 12 percent.
On the TB incidence rate, the report says that TB incidence rate is decreasing and the target was to achieve 20 percent reduction in the rate from year 2015 to 2020 but from 2015 to 2019, total reduction rate of TB incidence was nine per cent — from 142 to 130 new cases per 1 lakh population. Between 2018 and 2019, it was a 2.3 per cent reduction.
In India, 82 percent of TB patients are under treatment and the case fatality ratio stands at 17 per cent. The report further says that India has the highest burden of drug-resistant TB.
Report point out that “Drug-resistant TB continues to be a public health threat. Worldwide in 2019, close to half a million people developed rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB), of which 78% had multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB),”
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