TB control plan targets 79% fewer cases by 2025, seeks 4 times more money

It is seeking four times more funding to achieve the target

A radical draft National Strategic Plan (NSP) for Elimination of TB that proposes to bring down new tuberculosis (TB) infections by nearly 80% over the next eight years says India must expand the programme to the private sector, offer direct benefits transfer to patients, improve surveillance and monitoring of patients, and increase funding for the existing TB control programme.

India’s ongoing TB programme is inadequate, the NSP says, seeking five times the funding allocated to TB control over the last three years put together.

“If the new NSP can be fully funded, and fully implemented,