{"id":205459,"date":"2022-09-11T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T05:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=205459"},"modified":"2022-09-27T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T06:26:49","slug":"answered-highlight-the-steps-taken-by-the-government-to-make-india-tb-free-by-2025-what-more-is-required-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-highlight-the-steps-taken-by-the-government-to-make-india-tb-free-by-2025-what-more-is-required-to-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Highlight the steps taken by the government to make India TB-free by 2025. What more is required to be done?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"616\"><strong>Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Contextual introduction.<br \/>\n<strong>Body:\u00a0<\/strong>Write some steps taken by the government to make India TB-free by 2025. Also write some additional measures to achieve this target.<br \/>\n<strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: Write a way forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious <strong>airborne bacterial disease.<\/strong> According to\u00a0<strong>WHO\u2019s Global TB report 2021<\/strong>, with 25.9 lakh TB cases,\u00a0<strong>India is home to 25% of the global tuberculosis cases<\/strong>.\u00a0The National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) aims to strategically\u00a0reduce TB burden in India by 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps taken by the government:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A range of forward-looking policies have been implemented including critical schemes such as\u00a0<em><strong>Ni-kshay\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Poshan Yojana (NPY),<\/strong> which helped <strong>meet the nutritional requirements<\/strong> of TB patients, especially the underserved.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ayushman Bharat &#8211; Health and Wellness Centres<\/strong> are established to decentralize comprehensive primary healthcare including TB care services at the grassroots level.<\/li>\n<li>Initiated strategies to <strong>engage the community and create a\u00a0<em>Jan Andolan<\/em><\/strong> to reach out to the underserved and marginalized and support patients in accessing care.<\/li>\n<li>Creation of <strong>Patient Support Groups (PSGs)<\/strong> to facilitate conversations between patients, doctors and their caregivers to address common issues in treatment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Using Information Technology (IT) tools<\/strong> for monitoring the programme and treatment adherence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Incentives to private providers<\/strong> for following the standard protocols for diagnosis and treatment as well as for notifying the government of cases.<\/li>\n<li>Patients referred to the government receive a <strong>cash transfer<\/strong> to compensate them for the direct and indirect costs of undergoing treatment and as an incentive to complete treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What more can be done?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Poverty and malnutrition<\/strong> are two main reasons for TB. Elected representatives need to ensure steps for the eradication of these.<\/li>\n<li>There is an urgent need for <strong>cost-effective point-of-care devices<\/strong> that can be deployed for TB diagnosis in different settings across India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Service delivery<\/strong> should be optimised so that the diagnostics and drugs reach to people who need them the most.<\/li>\n<li>There is a need to aggressively <strong>scale up testing with innovative strategies<\/strong> such as active surveillance, bidirectional screening for respiratory tract infections using the most sensitive molecular diagnostics, and contact tracing.<\/li>\n<li>The government must ensure that\u00a0<strong>social security programmes<\/strong>are duly implemented. They work towards prevention of modifiable risk factors like malnutrition, poverty etc.<\/li>\n<li>There is also a need to consider\u00a0<strong>telemedicine and remote support\u00a0<\/strong>as important aspects of health services that could play a pivotal role in early detection and treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collective effort is desired at local, national and international level to attain <strong>SDG 3.3<\/strong> which aims to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction:\u00a0Contextual introduction. Body:\u00a0Write some steps taken by the government to make India TB-free by 2025. Also write some additional measures to achieve this target. Conclusion: Write a way forward. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious airborne bacterial disease. 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