Before Modi government announced a plan to eradicate TB by 2025, patients were identified only when they walked into a health facility.

More than 95 percent of TB related deaths happen in low- and middle-income nations.

This is after a study in Kenya and nine other countries showed that a one-month antibiotic regimen to prevent the disease is safer and more effective than the standard nine-month therapy. Medical institutions throughout the country received more than 2,000 copies of the book. The over-crowded areas such as urban slums therefore, throw up high-figures of TB infections.

We saw the beginnings of this global movement at the historic meeting in Moscow last November, when Russian President Vladimir Putin in his keynote speech expressed his personal commitment to ending TB in Russia. This kind of a treatment regime is hard to adhere to, especially when the symptoms disappear within the first 1 month of the treatment. A priority is getting these new treatments to patients by broadening sustainable and responsible access. Among MDR-TB patients, additional resistance to any fluoroquinolones was 21.82% and 3.58% to any second-line injectable drugs.

Earlier in around three years, TB care in the public health sector is seeing the improvement and not only it provides some major diagnostic facilities, but also in an expenditure of the new treatments, principally Bedaquiline, the newest anti-TB drug which introduced to cure the TB nearly four decades ago, worldwide, the doctors said.

They managed to isolate different strains of the disease using a process called genome sequencing.

Life-threatening disease Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). As we mark World TB day, we are reluctantly forced to acknowledge that TB is still ravaging the lives of predominantly poor people.

Though, it is only over the past year which is being performed on the first day for all patients if the patients come in contact with the infection.

According to the National TB Control Program, the major factor responsible for the large TB disease burden in Kenya is the concurrent HIV epidemic. This is because TB, especially TB of lungs, can weaken the lungs forever. Many a times, the patients miss out on one or the other of this.

This year's campaign is dubbed "Wanted: Leaders for a TB-Free World, you can make history". A sum of $525 million was allocated in 2017, of which 74% was funded from domestic sources. "Though our Community Health Workers are available to track defaulters and provide treatment support, their efforts are often hampered by the provision of wrong addresses when patients open files at the clinic".

Senior physician Dr. S K Kalra told India Today that the usual course of medication in this disease is at least 9 to 18 months and if the treatment is left in between, the bacterial strains become resistant to the usual drugs given to treat this sickness. In case of the former, your immune system stops TB germs from spreading in your body.