(The Gist of PIB) Annual TB Report 2020

[July-2020]

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.

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.
Achieving near-complete on-line notification of TB patients through the NIKSHAY system.
Private sector notifications increased by 35% with 6.78 lakh TB patients notified.
Due to easy availability of molecular diagnostics, the proportion of children diagnosed with TB increased to 8% in 2019 compared to 6% in 2018.
Provision of HIV testing for all notified TB patients increased from 67% in 2018 to 81% in 2019.
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.
NIKSHAY also expanded the provision of four Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT) schemes of the programme including of Nikshay Poshan Yojana (NPY) to TB patients.

For the first time Central TB Division (CTD) introduced a quarterly ranking on TB elimination efforts by all the states and UTs.
In the categories of larger states with more than 50 lakh population, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh were awarded as best performing States.
In the category of smaller states with less than 50 lakh population, Tripura and Nagaland were awarded.
In the category of Union Territory, Dadara and Nagar Haveli, and Daman & Diu were chosen as the best performers