In an attempt to emphasize the need to achieve goal of Universal Access to TB care, RNTCP (Revised National TB Control Programme) State task Force (STF) meeting has been organized, at Aurangabad ...

Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday embarked on implementing revised national tuberculosis control programme (RNTCP) where TB patients will be administered the Directly Observed Treatment Short (DOTS ...

A sensitisation programme for private doctors on the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in Ramanagara district by the government a few months ago, led to 90 per cent of them ...

In order to scale-up access to effective drug resistant TB treatment, central government has upgraded its diagnostic capacities by putting in place 623 CBNAAT/Genexpert machines as a part of its ...

In a strategic development, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Central TB Division, IPA, AIOCD, SEARPharm Forum and Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) on April, 27 this year for ...

Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme invited applications for District PPM Coordinator, Senior Treatment Supervisor and RNTCP Lab Technician / Sputum Microscopist post. Eligible candidates ...

The Eligible candidates can apply to the post in the prescribed format and send the application via email to [email protected] on or before 02 March 2018. Shilpa Kohli is a content writer with 4+ ...

We have held talks with major drug companies in an effort to offer free medical facilities to tuberculosis patients in India, said Dr Ashok Kumar, deputy director general, Revised National TB Control ...

If there is already a long delay before TB patients in India start treatment, the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy offered by India’s TB control programme does not make it easy ...

In 2013, India had about 2.7 million people with Tuberculosis, which is 23 per cent of the global burden of the disease. India also accounted for 27 per cent (760,000) of the world’s “missing” ...

Dr Kalyan Krishna Velivela, Medical Coordinator, MSF specialises in TB, especially drug resistant TB and has recently returned from Uzbekistan which is one of the many countries in Asia with a high ...

Bengaluru: The Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) in the city sees some 40 to 60 new tuberculosis patients every month. But it's only one of many hospitals treating a growing number of ...