Tuberculosis: Current strategies to control MDR

Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium group of organism, is one of the ancient disease known to mankind. Despite the long known history of TB, treatment modalities are still not well understood and fully developed. Govt of India declared Tuberculosis a notifiable disease on 7th May 2012. India has introduced PMDT (Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant TB) services in all 35 states on 24th March 2013. Despite this entire claim made, we are very far from our MDG and RNTCP targets to achieve. In the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2014 the then Union Health Minister announced the TB-Mission 2020 to eliminate TB from India