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Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme

Tuberculosis Control Program

India's national tuberculosis control programme, launched in 1997 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, adopting the World Health Organization's DOTS strategy nationwide after pilot testing found it more effective than India's earlier National Tuberculosis Programme. It provides free diagnosis and treatment through government health facilities, with treatment observed by health workers or trained community volunteers. Treatment success rates rose to above 85 percent by the 2010s under the revised approach. India nonetheless continues to carry the world's largest tuberculosis burden by absolute case count, and the programme was rebranded the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme in 2020, alongside a government target of eliminating tuberculosis in India by 2025, five years ahead of the global Sustainable Development Goal target.

Facts
Launch Year
1997 1
Program Status
Ongoing (rebranded the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme in 2020) 1
Sponsoring Body
Government of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 1
Geographic Scope
India 1
Measured Results
Treatment success rates rose above 85 percent by the 2010s; India nonetheless continues to carry the world's largest tuberculosis burden by absolute case count 1
Program status (class)
Concluded 1
Classification
Program Kind
Disease Surveillance Program 1
Connections

Associated With

Public Health, Branches
Source Wikipedia: Revised National Tuberculosis Control ProgrammeWikipedia contributors

Delivers Practice

Disease Surveillance, Practices

Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundation
  • History section, National TB Elimination Program (India) article
    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.
  • In Category: Public Health Programs
  • Associated With: Public Health
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