World TB Day!

World tuberculosis day is celebrated no the 24th of march every year to raise public mindfulness about the staggering wellbeing, social and monetary outcomes of TB, and to increase determination to end the worldwide TB pandemic. On this day in 1882 Dr Robert Koch said that he had found the bacterium which cause TB and that this would lead to further advances into recovering and curing the disease proficiently.The theme of World TB Day 2021 is ‘The Clock is Ticking’ –conveys the sense that the world is running out of time to act on the commitments to end TB made by global leaders.Now let’s have a look towards, Covid and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) and Coronavirus are both irresistible illnesses that assault basically the lungs. The two illnesses have comparable side effects like hack, fever and trouble relaxing. TB, in any case, has a more drawn out brooding period with a more slow beginning of sickness. While experience on Coronavirus contamination in TB patients stays restricted, it is expected that individuals sick with both TB and Coronavirus may have less fortunate therapy results, particularly if TB therapy is interfered. TB patients should play it safe as prompted by wellbeing specialists to be shielded from Coronavirus and proceed with their TB treatment as endorsed.What has Government done and its measures: The government has launched ‘mask for the mass’ campaign in order to prevent the widespread of covid 19 and tuberculosis, and also to promote usage of masks. In a awareness programme in on Tuesday, the health secretary J. Krishnan said that the patients with TB and other lung infections are at an higher risk of getting affected with covid 19. He spoke about the cases in India and those who were treated. He urged the people on wearing masks and practicing social distancing and also to get vaccinated properly. ‘Clock is ticking! A World TB Day campaign for action!’.On World TB Day, WHO calls on everyone to keep the promise to:• Accelerate the End TB Response to reach the targets set in Sustainable Development Goals, WHO End TB Strategy, the Moscow Declaration to End TB and the political declaration of the UN High-Level Meeting on TB.• Diagnose and treat 40 million people with TB by 2022 including 3.5 million children and 1.5 million people with drug-resistant TB. This is in line with WHO’s overall drive towards Universal Health Coverage and the WHO Director General’s flagship initiative “Find. Treat. All. #EndTB” jointly with the Global Fund and Stop TB Partnership.• Reach 30 million people with TB preventive treatment by 2022 so that those people most at risk receive TB preventive treatment, including 24 million household contacts of TB patients – 4 million of whom are children under 5 – and 6 million people living with HIV.• Mobilize sufficient and sustainable financing to reach USD 13 billion a year to support efforts to end TB; for every USD 1 invested to end TB, USD 43 is returned as the benefits of a healthy functioning society (Economist/ Copenhagen Consensus).• Invest in TB research to reach at least USD 2 billion a year for better science, better tools and better delivery.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING. IT’S TIME TO KEEP OUR PROMISES. IT’S TIME TO #END TB.