[Focus] Ending TB is possible: No excuse for inaction!
Channel: CNS
Date: 2016-03-13

Dr Rohit Sarin, Director, National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases (NIRTD, formerly LRS) shared his insight on how to accelerate progress towards ending TB by 2030. This video interview is part of End TB video mini-series of CNS in lead up to World TB Day 2016. 

Ending TB by 2030 is possible. Though the TB rate is declining, but the decline is very slow. TB rates need to decline more steeply and at a faster pace so that the world is able to meet the 2030 target of ending TB (Sustainable Development Goal 3.3). To ensure faster decline in TB rates, we need to find new TB patients early, and ensure they receive effective treatment and get successfully cured. With early diagnosis and prompt treatment we will be able to reduce the infectiousness of TB within a community too. Ministries other than health and family welfare ministry should join hands along with other partners such as civil society, cured TB patients' networks, etc.
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Focus, is a CNS video series on current global health and development priorities. This is episode 49. CNS Special Correspondent Rahul Kumar Dwivedi interviewed Dr Rohit Sarin in February 2016 at 70th National Conference of TB and Chest Diseases (NATCON) in Lucknow, India.
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