{"id":8799,"date":"2020-06-26T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2020-06-26T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:34:42","slug":"annual-tb-report-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/annual-tb-report-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual TB Report 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Relevance: Prelims: Health: Governance<\/span><\/h1>\n

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\u2022 Union Minister for Health released the annual TB Report 2020. He also released a Joint Monitoring Mission (JMM) report, a manual on Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to TB patients under NIKSHAY system, a Training Module, and the quarterly newsletter NIKSHAY Patrika.<\/p>\n

The key achievements listed in the Report include:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Around 24.04 Lakh TB patients have been notified in 2019. This amounts to a 14% increase in TB notification as compared to the year 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Achieving near-complete on-line notification of TB patients through the NIKSHAY system.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Private sector notifications increased by 35% with 6.78 lakh TB patients notified.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Due to easy availability of molecular diagnostics, the proportion of children diagnosed with TB increased to 8% in 2019 compared to 6% in 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Provision of HIV testing for all notified TB patients increased from 67% in 2018 to 81% in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Expansion of treatment services has resulted in a 12% improvement in the treatment success rate of notified patients. For 2019 it is 81% compared to 69% in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2022 NIKSHAY also expanded the provision of four Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT) schemes of the programme including of Nikshay Poshan Yojana (NPY) to TB patients.<\/p>\n

Ranking of states:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 For the first time Central TB Division (CTD) introduced a quarterly ranking on TB elimination efforts by all the states and UTs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the categories of larger states with more than 50 lakh population, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh were awarded as best performing States.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the category of smaller states with less than 50 lakh population, Tripura and Nagaland were awarded.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the category of Union Territory, Dadara and Nagar Haveli, and Daman & Diu were chosen as the best performers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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