The health ministry is working on an initiative—called Nikshay Mitra— that will allow individuals to adopt Tuberculosis patients and look after their nutritional and medical needs in a bid to break the stigma surrounding the disease in India.

This study will demonstrate the effect of BCG revaccination in comparison to oral chemoprophylaxis on the incidence of mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in healthy household contacts, aged 6-18 years.

The trial aimed to find whether metformin can reduce the time required for sputum culture to become negative in pulmonary TB patients.

There is good news for children suffering from tuberculosis as the government has started the rollout of the world's first easily-dissolvable and flavoured drug in five states as part of a pilot programme.