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Politics of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme

Vol. 51, Issue No. 37, 10 Sep, 2016
Debabar Banerji

There is documentary evidence of the degeneration of the scientific basis of dealing with tubercul0sis as a public health problem in India. The outstanding research on TB in the past must not be forgotten by the authors of "Resource Optimisation for Tuberculosis Elimination in India" (EPW, 7 May 2016).

The Ever-Mutating Enemy

Vol. 49, Issue No. 36, 06 Sep, 2014
Prasad Alex

Tuberculosis is spreading with renewed vigour globally as are its more virulent strains like multi-drug-resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB. Even as the bacteria mutates and there is urgent need to deal with the many inadequacies of the present treatment regimen, new drugs backed by innovative research are conspicuously absent. A new candidate anti-TB drug proposed to be tried by the Open Source Drug Discovery initiative with the Council of Scientifi c and Industrial Research offers a ray of hope.

India Needs a National Policy to Control Tuberculosis

Vol. 49, Issue No. 28, 12 Jul, 2014
T Jacob John

There is no policy in India for tuberculosis control and the centrally-run Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme has neither mandate nor agenda for TB control. There are short, medium and long term remedies for the maladies of the revised programme which are detailed in this article. TB is both a biomedical and a social, cultural and economic problem. Citizens must demand a national policy for TB control.

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