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Blog on World TB Day

To mark the World Tuberculosis Day, the New Delhi TB Centre on 22nd March, 2024  organized health awareness talk on Tuberculosis.  The event was facilitated by Dr. Sanjay Rajpal, Director, NDTB Centre, Dr. Ashwani Khanna, Chairman, NDTB Centre, Dr. K.K. Chopra, Consultant, NDTB Centre, , Mr. Vikram Malhotra, Secretary General, TAI, Dr. Shanker Matta and Mrs. Shadab Khan. 

WORLD AIDS DAY PROGRAMME

TAI and its technical arm, New Delhi TB Centre observed the World AIDS Day on 1st December 2023. At the function organized in the NDTB Centre, Chairman TAI Prof (Dr.) V.K. Arora, Vice Chairman TAI , Dr Ashwani Khanna, Director New Delhi TB Centre, Dr K.K.Chopra and other senior officials of TAI and NDTB Centre were present.  

SPUTUM DISINFECTION

Mycobacteria do remain alive for at least 24 hours in sputum in natural conditions and hence are potentially transmissible. Therefore sputum needs to be disinfected …

MDR TB

The diagnosis and treatment guidelines of DR-TB is still evolving, and India is updating the same in concurrence with the WHO recommendations. However, at the national level, there are various gaps including logistics, …

GERIATRIC TUBERCULOSIS

The age of tuberculosis patients will continue to rise with the improvement of the epidemiologic situation, resulting from an ever-improving quality of the NTEP in curtailing transmission.

TB SENSITIZATION OF FINAL YEAR BHMS STUDENTS

TB Association of India regularly conducts Sensitization session for medical and para medical staff about Tuberculosis.

One day workshop was held on MDR TB on 5th October 2023 in NDTB CENTRE.
More than 60 delegates attended the workshop.
National level faculty delivered lectures on recent management of MDR TB.