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ReportsReport card grades India's tuberculosis control efforts
A report card grading each Indian state on its effectiveness in controlling tuberculosis was issued on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day on March 24. As the report indicates, India's success in tackling the disease has been mixed More...
Eradicating tuberculosis: The unfinished agenda
By Sandhya Srinivasan
TB is a disease of poverty. But the poor and unemployed, the ones most in need of treatment, are more likely to default on treatment. 'Defaulting' on treatment can lead to multi-drug resistant TB, which the National TB Control Programme cannot, or will not, afford. This is an account of the human side of tuberculosis in India, which has the highest number of TB cases in the world and a third of the global burden More...
Where there are no doctors
By Sandhya Srinivasan
Sandhya Srinivasan reviews a manual on primary health care written for primary health workers More...
National Health Policy - 2002
The complete text of the National Health Policy More...
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