tuberculosis

India, Indonesia, China, Philippines and Pakistan account for more than half of cases

Extreme weather events are overwhelming health services, displacing communities and causing upsurges in infection

Absence of domestic funding and a lack of political commitment to form coherent policies have amplified the issue

Express unwillingness to register themselves citing fear of being admitted in coronavirus wards

With around 9,000 persons diagnosed with TB in Balochistan

Balochistan implementing WHO plan to rid province of disease

Experts fearful that progress in tackling tuberculosis will be lost.

All new enrollments in Sindh's schools to be screened for tuberculosis, if positive, to be screened for HIV/AIDS

The country is the fifth-most affected nation by the respiratory disease

Tuberculosis remains a menace in India, killing 421,000 in 2017 according to the World Health Organization

Says screening camps are being established across Balochistan to facilitate people

Health minister says govt committed to eradicating TB on a priority basis

One-day camp examines people and enrols patients in DOTS programme

Doctor urges locals to avoid home medication and quack doctors

‘It’s time’ the theme of World TB Day 2019 puts accent on urgency

Health officials, minister call for multi-sectoral approach to tackling disease

Pakistan, India, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Nigeria and South Africa accounted for 64% of total TB cases

Tuberculosis is as curable as it is preventable, provided both are exercised in their true sense

CM Khattak says new machine to be used to help doctors diagnose disease

Bus company employees to be screened, trained about the disease

1.8 million died from the bacterial infection in 2015

Doctors, officials in Gilgit say facilities and free medicine available but people don’t know how to use them

'TB is a curable disease. Clean environment, healthy food as well as medicines are prerequisites for the treatment'

Punjab Primary and Secondary Health Minister distributes motorcycles among field staff of TB Control Programme.

26,017 patients registered from across Punjab in six months

Gaps in reporting, coverage and funding remain, warns WHO

Patients complain authorities have failed to implement  card system

TB ward chief claims best practices being followed

House passed resolution to shift Pakistan Tobacco Board to province as major tobacco growers are K-P based

Opts for post-devolution strengthening of provinces

Shortages could lead to a rise in drug-resistant strains of TB with thousands of patients missing doses mid-treatment

Provincial TB Control Programme provides free treatment, medicine to patients

Vaccines being smuggled to private health centres, leading to use of incorrect syringes

The government says 265 babies caught infections, from respiratory to diarrhoeal diseases, in the first half of 2015

As a result of concerted efforts, Pakistan has one of the highest rates of success in TB treatment across the world

India is the world's TB hotspot as it accounts for 23 per cent of global cases