India's fight against TB

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🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, the United Nations and the World Health Organisation set out their blueprints to eradicate Tuberculosis by 2030. TB is a potentially deadly bacterial disease that, despite being preventable and curable, kills just over a million people around the world every year. The disease is prevalent in India, where one person dies every 90 seconds from TB. In 2017, the Indian government announced their plans to eradicate TB by 2025. But with that date looming, can the country with the highest global burden of TB succeed in its massive challenge? We hear from policymakers about the public health strategies they have formulated and the medical professionals on the ground who are employing them across the country.

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0:00.0	I'm Brishghun, a filmmaker from here in a stand in the northeast of India.
0:10.0	In my work, I've traveled around the region searching for stories to tell and experiences to share.
0:17.0	One image that has stayed with me is of a pregnant worker fetching water from a dirty pond in one of the tea gardens of a sand.
0:25.2	The workers live in potite conditions whilst working long hours picking tea to be shipped
0:30.2	around the world.
0:31.9	One of the consequences of anhygienic sanitation and
0:34.7	cramped living conditions is a spread of tuberculosis or more commonly known as
0:39.8	TB. The bacterial infection is contracted by nearly 10 million people globally every year,
0:55.9	with between 1 and 1.5 million cases resulting in death.
1:01.0	In May 2014, they set a target to end the TB epidemic by 2035 and the following year the United Nations set a goal for eradication by 2030.
1:11.0	But in 2018, India's Prime Minister Norengramodi set the country a monumental
1:16.7	challenge that would eclipse both the WHO and the UN.
1:20.5	Tivikow katma karne. the UN. T.B. Wers 2030.
1:25.0	2030 is the set deadline for the
1:29.0	2030 is the set deadline for eradication of TB. However, I want to inform you from this podium that we are
1:37.5	aiming for eradication five years prior to 2030, i. E. 2025.
1:45.0	2025. 25 tak.
1:48.0	TV,
1:49.0	kahadmakar
1:50.0	laksh a praytaykea. But can a country with the largest population and the highest percentage of global cases really succeed?
2:02.0	I'm Rishvano-Borwa and this is a documentary
2:06.0	India's Fight Against TV from the BBC World Service. service.
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