(Aditya Shaw, Intern Journalist): (Aditya Shaw, Intern Journalist): While dealing with the Covid epidemic, the second epidemic may affect the fight against TB. Covid-19 and its associated lockdown and other disruptions were estimated to go back at least five years in the progress made in the fight against TB. In this case, the number of hidden and untreated cases of TB will increase and there will be more spread of this disease. This will increase pressure on families, communities, and countries.
After such an assessment, the United States and India have signed several important agreements with other countries to further strengthen the war against TB. There are 18 other countries including America and India against TB. On the anniversary of USAID’s Global Accelerator Two and Tuberculosis Program, the organization’s executive administrator, John Barsa, said that two years ago, the US International Development Agency (USAID) launched the Global Accelerator Two and Tuberculosis (TB) program at the United Nations General Assembly, Which was a new way of fighting the world’s most dangerous infectious disease.
Together with the Heads of State and Partners of the countries most affected by TB, USAID is committed to the ambitious goal of identifying 40 million additional patients by 2022 and including them in TB treatment programs. He said that because of this danger, the accelerator’s method of ensuring solutions at the local level and developing more effective and efficient programs becomes more important than ever. As the top government agency in the US concerned with the efforts to end TB worldwide, USAID will continue to develop the capabilities of nations to recover from the losses caused by COVID-19 and eliminate TB.
He said that in the last two years, the accelerator has made impressive progress in building national commitment and capacity to combat TB. Through the accelerator, USAID has signed TB Partnership Statements with health ministries in 18 countries and deployed technical advisors in 24 national TB programs for greater collaboration and transparency. He said the importance of the local partners of the accelerator in continuing to provide TB-related health services during the Covid-19 epidemic has increased even more, as many government health centers have closed.
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