Share of TB patients on treatment versus short MDR TB treatment India 2018-2020
In 2020, of all Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) tuberculosis cases, 86 percent of them were put on normal treatment whereas 72 percent of patients were iniated on shorter MDR regimen at the time of diagnosis. By contrast, in 2018, 79 percent of diagnosed patients were initiated on normal TB regiment of which only 35 percent were put on the shorter MDR regimen.
