Achievement of National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme by Various States in India: The Way Forward

Successful control of TB worldwide depends on strengthening the TB control programmes by increasing access to rapid diagnosis and providing effective treatment.As transformation tools are developed, burdensome countries like India need to improve the efficiency of their healthcare systems and ensure better adoption of new technologies.To decline the TB numbers in India, it must be ensured that the treatment given to the TB patients is effective and result-oriented.TB elimination efforts are essential to focus on all forms of TB, together with Extra Pulmonary TB, leaving no one behind to realize the dream of ending TB.The data were collected using the World Health Organization (WHO), India TB reports from 2015-22; and various other literatures were reviewed.Kerala and Madhya Pradesh have an excellent notification rate while Haryana and Kerala have a reasonable success rate in terms of MDR-TB and Cure Rate of Treatment Outcome of TB patients in the public sector has been increasing for the last five years and will be able to achieve elimination of TB soon.