Tuberculosis and Leprosy

Role and Responsibility

 

  • Address gaps across the patient pathway.
  • Prevent infection and active disease.
  • Provide people-centered equitable quality TBL services.
  • Enhance bold policies and strengthen supportive systems.
  • Generate and use TBL strategic information and research outputs

Program Milestone, Project and Initiatives

 

  • Reduce TB incidence from 151 to 91 per 100,000 population.
  • Reduce TB deaths from 22 to 7 per 100,000 population.
  • Reduce families facing catastrophic costs due to TB to ≤ 25%.
  • Increase DR TB treatment coverage from 46% to 90%
  • Increase DR TB treatment success rate from 72% to 80%
  • Reduce leprosy prevalence from 0.3 to 0.1 per 10,000 population.
  • Reduce the proportion of people with leprosy diagnosed with grade-2 disability from 14% to less than 5%.

TB priorities of NSP 2021 – 2026

 

  • Community-based TB Care and prevention
  • Quality assured TB Diagnostics access
  • HF-based TB Care and prevention packages
  • Integrated TB/HIV service delivery
  • Engaging all care providers for TB care and prevention
  • TB Prevention and care in congregate settings.
  • Equitable quality DR-TB care and prevention services
  • Strengthening TB M&E system.
  • TB operational research and innovations