CHENNAI: Though there is a growing awareness of tuberculosis among people in the rural areas across the State, not many of them are familiar with the DOTS (directly observed treatment, short course) expansion programme, a survey found.

March 6: At least 30 per cent of TB patients in certain areas of the state such as Vijayawada are HIV positive, revealed the TB Alert UK chief executive, Mr Mike Man-delbaum.

LUCKNOW: The Sanjay Gandhi Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences started a tuberculosis awareness drive on Tuesday, with a rath yatra of TB experts visiting various DOTS centres across the city.

The yatra was flagged off by institute director Dr A K Mahapatra from the general hospital of SGPGIMS. The yatra would culminate on World TB Day, on March 24.

Science 2.0 is here as CSIR resorts to open source drug research for TB
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi March 1, 2009, 0:23 IST

A global net-based project for finding a new TB drug sets the pace for research into poor man's diseases that don't attract big money.

Feb. 2: Indian scientists have achieved a major breakthrough by developing a single drug that can cure tuberculosis. At present, TB is treated using multi-drug therapy in which each drug targets different metabolic pathways in Mycobacterium, the causative pathogen, trying to cripple it.

India

In spite of the dramatic advances made in health care in the past decades, it is hard to believe that tuberculosis (TB) kills three people every two minutes in India. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the oldest infectious agents known to mankind.