A new study paints a grim picture of tuberculosis in India, projecting millions of cases and deaths over the next two decades.
November 27, 2002 in Brooklyn, New York. Health care workers around the country oversee patients in a program called Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) that ensures carriers of the tuberculosis bacteria take their medication. Tuberculosis is a contagious disease of the lungs that is spread through the air and kills around 2 million people annually, mainly in third world countries. It is relatively easy and affordable to treat, with a six-month series of drugs costing around 10 dollars.
While the number of TB cases in the United States has dropped in recent years, the disease is still particularly strong among the foreign-born, the homeless and impoverished contributing to the deaths of thousands of Americans yearly. As of 2000, over 16,000 Americans have contracted tuberculosis. A new study says the ground realities are still looking bleak. Researchers estimated that from 2021 to 2040, India will see more than 62.4 million TB cases across the country and at least 8.1 million deaths caused by TB bacilli. The economic impact could also be severe. The study says India could suffer a cumulative Gross Domestic Product (GDP) loss of over $146 billion US dollars. “In spite of decade-long pursuits of strategies to end TB, the health and economic disease burdens of TB remain very high in India. Low-income households will bear larger health and relative economic burdens while larger absolute economic burdens will fall on high-income households,” the researchers highlighted in their study that was published in “United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals call for a 90% reduction in TB deaths by 2030, compared with 2015 but meeting this target is unlikely. Despite considerable increases since 2000, funding for TB is still far short of global financing targets, and substantial investment in research and development funding is needed for new tools to prevent TB disease among the approximately
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