India signs WHO ‘Call To End TB by 2030’

India along with other countries in the South East Asian Region in March 2017 signed WHO ‘Call To End Tuberculosis (TB) by 2030’ in the region. The WHO global targets seek to reduce TB mortality by 90% and incidence by 80% by 2030. WHO’s South-East Asia Region comprises Bhutan, Bangladesh, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste.

• WHO South-East Asia Region (WHO SEARO) countries have pledged to scale-up efforts and implement adequately funded, innovative, multi-sectoral and comprehensive measures to achieve the global target to end the disease by 2030.
• They also agreed to set up of a ....