{"id":177311,"date":"2022-04-02T20:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=177311"},"modified":"2022-04-02T20:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:15:14","slug":"indias-tuberculosis-fight-may-get-a-shot-in-the-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-tuberculosis-fight-may-get-a-shot-in-the-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Tuberculosis fight may get a shot in the arm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) is in the advanced stage of developing a vaccine against tuberculosis.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Tuberculosis(TB) Cases in India<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>According to India\u2019s TB Report 2022: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India reported a 19% rise in tuberculosis cases in 2021 over the previous year. The total number of incident TB patients (new and relapse) notified during 2021 were 19.33 lakh, as opposed to that of 16.28 lakh in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Deaths due to TB: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total number of estimated deaths from all forms of TB excluding HIV for 2020 was 4.93 lakh, which was higher by 13% than the 2019 estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A huge majority of <\/span><b>64% of surveyed symptomatic population<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> did not seek healthcare services between 2019 and 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>State wise TB Cases:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Delhi, with 534 cases per 1 lakh population, has the highest prevalence of TB, followed by Rajasthan,\u00a0 Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. Kerala has the lowest prevalence with 115 per 1 lakh people.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the vaccines being developed against Tuberculosis?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National AIDS Research Institute(NARI) under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is conducting Phase 3 Trials of two potential vaccines for TB namely <\/span><b>VPM1002 and Immuvac.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trials are being done in 18 sites in six Indian states. The phase 3 trials are expected to be over by 2024 after which the patient data will be compiled and results will be analyzed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>India\u2019s Tuberculosis fight may get a shot in the arm\u00a0<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Times of India on 2nd April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) is in the advanced stage of developing a vaccine against tuberculosis. Tuberculosis(TB) Cases in India According to India\u2019s TB Report 2022: India reported a 19% rise in tuberculosis cases in 2021 over the previous year. The total number of incident TB patients (new and relapse) notified&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-tuberculosis-fight-may-get-a-shot-in-the-arm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s Tuberculosis fight may get a shot in the arm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-177311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}