CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -But we can regain control and meet our commitments to end TB by 2030 as long as we assert our political will now.” The Global Plan maps out how to end TB as a public health challenge by 2030-the year by which governments around the world committed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Detailed explanation-2: -The WHO’s End TB strategy was adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2014 as part of the newly established Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals aim for a 90% reduction in deaths caused by tuberculosis deaths by 2030, compared with 2015 levels.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, all nations have set the goal of eradicating TB by the year 2030. But the Government of India has set the target of eradicating TB by the year 2025 and efforts are being made at every level to fulfill this resolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -President Murmu urged citizens to work collectively towards the elimination of Tuberculosis from the country by 2025 on a war footing, as she virtually launched Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan.

Detailed explanation-5: -WHO developed the End TB Strategy, which was endorsed by the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly in 2014. The strategy envisions a world free of TB, with zero deaths, disease and suffering due to the disease. Further, the strategy ambitiously proposes to “end the global TB epidemic” by 2035.