Tuberculosis Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== India ==== As of 2017, India had the largest total incidence, with an estimated 2,740,000 cases.<ref name="Global tuberculosis report 2018"/> According to the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO), in 2000β2015, India's estimated mortality rate dropped from 55 to 36 per 100,000 population per year with estimated 480 thousand people died of TB in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://extranet.who.int/sree/Reports?op=Replet&name=%2FWHO_HQ_Reports%2FG2%2FPROD%2FEXT%2FTBCountryProfile&ISO2=IN&LAN=EN&outtype=html|title=WHO Global tuberculosis report 2016: India|access-date=22 August 2020|archive-date=6 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206193815/https://extranet.who.int/sree/Reports?op=Replet&name=%2FWHO_HQ_Reports%2FG2%2FPROD%2FEXT%2FTBCountryProfile&ISO2=IN&LAN=EN&outtype=html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/health/report-govt-revisits-strategy-to-combat-tuberculosis-nadda-2388967|title=Govt revisits strategy to combat tuberculosis|work=Daily News and Analysis|date=8 April 2017|access-date=22 August 2020|archive-date=3 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603072417/https://www.dnaindia.com/health/report-govt-revisits-strategy-to-combat-tuberculosis-nadda-2388967|url-status=live}}</ref> In India a major proportion of tuberculosis patients are being treated by private partners and private hospitals. Evidence indicates that the tuberculosis national survey does not represent the number of cases that are diagnosed and recorded by private clinics and hospitals in India.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mahla RS | title = Prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa | journal = The Lancet. Infectious Diseases | volume = 18 | issue = 8 | pages = 836 | date = August 2018 | pmid = 30064674 | doi = 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30401-8 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page