Annual TB Report 2020

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan released the annual TB Report 2020 through a virtual event . Also, 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 was released.

Highlights

• 04 lakh notified TB patients in 2019 in India, which is a 14% increase from 2018.
• Reduction in the number of missing cases to 2.9 lakh cases as against more than 10 lakhs in 2017.
• Private sector notifications increased by 35% with 6.78 lakh TB patients notified.
• 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 system

• The country is achieving near-complete on-line notification of TB patients through the NIKSHAY system.
• Nikshay is an information management system that acts like a one-stop solution for managing patients’ information and monitor program activity and performance all over the country.
• It is developed and maintained by the Central TB Division (CTD), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre (NIC), and the World Health Organization Country office for India.

Best performing states

• The states were divided into large and small states based on their population.
• All the states with a population of more than 50 lakhs were under the larger states while the states with less than 50 lakh population were under the small states.
• In the category of large state, Gujarat has been voted as the best performing state. Andhra Pradesh is at second place and Himachal Pradesh at third place in this list.
• Among smaller states, both Nagaland and Tripura were honored as the best performing states.
• Among the Union Territories, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu were honored as the best performing Union Territories.

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