Name of Activity: World TB Day
Date Of Activity:26-01-2025
Place: Singramau & Chhapra
Facilitator:
Dr Alka
Dr Rakesh Singh DTO,
Kuvar Jai Singh Politicians
Programme Objective:
To raise global awareness about tuberculosis (TB) and the need to eliminate it as a global health problem. This includes advocating for increased efforts to detect, diagnose, and treat TB, as well as addressing the social and economic factors that contribute to the disease.
Beneficiaries
Direct : 25
Indirect: 20
Brief Activity Report
TBMVKS celebrated World TB day at organization Sabhagar in Singramau,Jaunpur. DTO Dr Rakesh Kumar told that World Tuberculosis Day is a global healthcare event celebrated on the 24th of March every year since 1982, intending to remind and cherish achievements made toward the control of tuberculosis (TB). It also encourages everyone to join the ever-growing movement of eradicating tuberculosis and its antimicrobial resistance as much as possible.
World Tuberculosis Day reminds the world that tuberculosis is still the number one killer among the infectious causes of death. Although tuberculosis is a curable and preventable disease, the control of tuberculosis demands a highly cost-effective health intervention.
Tuberculosis and antibiotic drug resistance
Dr said that tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that most commonly affects the lungs. TB disease spreads via the air by coughing, sneezing, and spitting. It is believed that around one-fourth of the worldwide population has been infected with tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is synonymous with the development of drug resistance in the world. No doctor speaks about either of those without mentioning the other! The main culprits in the risk of transmission and development of drug resistance and its increase in severity and mortality are the delays in diagnostic confirmations and inadequacy in treatment.
Despite TB affecting low- and middle-income nations excessively, the global population of patients suffering from tuberculosis.
