Postal Address
3, Red Cross Road, New Delhi - 110001. INDIA.
Phone Number
– 011-23715217
– 011-23711303
Email Address
tbassnindia@yahoo.co.in
Welcome to TB Association of India
3, Red Cross Road, New Delhi - 110001. INDIA.
– 011-23715217
– 011-23711303
tbassnindia@yahoo.co.in
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases globally, despite being both preventable and curable. India bears the highest burden of TB cases, and the need for awareness, early detection, and timely treatment has never been more urgent.
The Government of India initiated the Hundred Days, Hundred Districts Tuberculosis Campaign as a part of its intensified efforts to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in the country by 2025.
As a part of this initiative, an event was organized in the NGO, SPYM (a drug deaddiction centre) for female, situated at Parda Bagh, New Delhi.
On December 6th, 2024 the “Hundred Day Tuberculosis Campaign” was inaugurated at NDTBC. The event aimed to raise awareness about tuberculosis (TB) among patients and their families. A health awareness interaction was held, providing valuable information on TB prevention and management.
New Delhi TB Centre in collaboration with TAI has launched a TB and stigma awareness programme in 4 schools and 2 NGOs including HMDAV Senior Secondary School, Indraprastha Hindu Girls SS School, Sarvodhaya Vidhyalaya, Rohitigi SS School (Roshanpura), Bachoon Ka Ghar (orphanage) and SPYM (Drug De-addiction Centre).
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.
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.
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 …
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, …
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 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.