CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -IndianOil embarks on Intensified TB Elimination Project in Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in collaboration with Central TB Division.

Detailed explanation-2: -The National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme(NTEP)-Aims to strategically reduce TB burden in India by 2025. It was previously known as Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP). The government reached over a billion people in 632 districts/reporting units.

Detailed explanation-3: -India has had a TB Control Program since 1962. Since then it has re-organized itself two times; first into the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) in 1997 and then into the National Tuberculosis Elimination program in 2020.

Detailed explanation-4: -The DTC is the central program management unit of the district responsible for all activities related to National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) implementation such as: Advocacy. Active case finding. Diagnosis, treatment (both for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB cases) and follow up.