CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), previously known as Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), aims to strategically reduce TB burden in India by 2025, five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Making TB a focus of global health initiatives 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: -The TB National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2020 - 2025 is the plan which sets out what the Government of India (GoI) now believes is needed to eliminate TB in India by 2025. The NSP 2020 - 2025 replaces and “refreshes” the National Strategic Plan 2017 - 2025.

Detailed explanation-4: -Here’s the summary: Prime Minister Modi announced a plan to eliminate tuberculosis in India by 2025.

Detailed explanation-5: -Visions & Goals of the National Strategic Plan 2017 - 2025 The Goal was to achieve a rapid decline in the burden of TB, mortality and morbidity, while working towards the elimination of TB in India by 2025. Detect, Treat, Prevent & Build. There is also across all four areas, an overarching theme of the Private Sector.