India, Dec. 5 -- India, despite being a rapidly growing economy, continues to grapple with a high burden of TB.

The National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination aims for eradication by 2025 but the country is nowhere close to the goal.

India accounted for over a quarter of global TB cases in 2023.

In 2023, India accounted for more than a quarter of global incidences of TB and 29 per cent TB deaths in the WHO African and South East Asia regions that jointly claimed 80 per cent of the global mortality from TB.

Of the many contradictions that India has to offer, one that is glaring is the lingering high burden of tuberculosis (TB), an age-old disease both preventable and curable, in the face of India's repute of being the fastest growing e...