{"id":203683,"date":"2022-09-05T21:47:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203683"},"modified":"2022-09-05T21:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:17:59","slug":"bittersweet-pills-a-simpler-drug-regime-should-mean-better-tb-outcomes-not-another-missed-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bittersweet-pills-a-simpler-drug-regime-should-mean-better-tb-outcomes-not-another-missed-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bittersweet pills: A simpler drug regime should mean better TB outcomes not another missed opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong>Bittersweet pills: A simpler drug regime should mean better TB outcomes not another missed opportunity\u201d published in\u00a0<strong>The Times of India<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>5<sup>th<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues related to health <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: The article discusses about the issues in tackling tuberculosis in India and the impact of recent drug invented.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ZeNix phase III trial has shown that only 3-4 drugs will be needed for 6 months for tuberculosis than the other treatment which requires 13-14 drugs daily for 18-24 months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the current situation of TB in India?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India has been struggling with the TB for a longer period of time.<\/p>\n<p>A government survey finds that 63% of the chest symptomatic do not seek healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>It shows the shortfalls of public awareness campaigns and also the broken primary care health services in India.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of timely diagnosis of TB is one of the issues along with the overall gaps in proper observation of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The mortality rate in 2019-20 increased by 11% even though there was a 25% reduction in the number of cases.<\/p>\n<p>The present invented drug ZeNix will have a great positive impact in India because India has the world\u2019s highest burden of the TB disease including its multidrug-resistant strains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cBittersweet pills: A simpler drug regime should mean better TB outcomes not another missed opportunity\u201d published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a05th September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues related to health News: The article discusses about the issues in tackling tuberculosis in India and the impact of recent drug&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bittersweet-pills-a-simpler-drug-regime-should-mean-better-tb-outcomes-not-another-missed-opportunity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bittersweet pills: A simpler drug regime should mean better TB outcomes not another missed opportunity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-203683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704746220},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203683","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}