Puducherry CM releases TB Elimination Document
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Rangasamy also launches preventive treatment drive
Chief Minister N. Rangasamy on Wednesday released a TB Elimination Document and launched a preventive treatment drive to achieve the goal of eliminating the disease by 2025.
The Puducherry arm of the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) has formulated strategies in line with the National Strategic Plan 2017-25, prepared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to realise the mission objective ahead of the global goal of eliminating TB by 2030.
The TB elimination strategies, formulated with the help of various stakeholders and approved by the Central TB Division, Government of India, include measures such as surveillance of close contacts of infectious cases and screening for co-morbidities, including HIV, and their management.
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