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This seminar will discuss The Reducing Activation of Tuberculosis by Improvement Of Nutritional Status (RATIONS) trial. This was a multi-institutional cluster randomised trial, supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research, conducted between 2019 -2022 in four districts of Jharkhand. It was the first trial globally to aim for a reduction of tuberculosis (TB) incidence by improving the nutritional status of those at risk, and it was the largest cohort study of patients with TB who were give...

Large-scale field trials that provided healthy food packages to sufferers and their families showed radical reductions in fatalities

We need better tests, cures and vaccines for TB, but they alone cannot end the epidemic. TB patients must get social benefits that they need and deserve.

TB is the single most deadly infectious killer of humankind. New research shows food and proper nutrition work like a vaccine against the disease.

India News: An ICMR-supported first-of-its-kind trial set in Jharkhand has shown that nutritious food can help reduce TB incidence among families of TB patients, .

Mangaluru: A study on tuberculosis conducted by researchers from Yenepoya Medical College, Deralakatte, has concluded that better nutrition in TB pati.

Treating malnutrition markedly reduces deaths in TB patients in India. Its cheaper, too, than antibiotics and doesnt promote antibiotic resistance. Whats stopping us?

New evidence from Reducing Activation of Tuberculosis by Improvement of Nutritional Status (RATIONS) trial shows that improved nutrition among contacts of patients with infectious lung TB can reduce the incidence of all forms of TB by 40 per cent and of infectious TB by nearly 50 per cent. Significantly, it also found that early weight gain in underweight patients with TB can reduce their risk of mortality by 60 per cent

A monthly food basket with adequate protein and multivitamins can reduce new tuberculosis cases by nearly half among family members of TB patients in India, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal.

Treating malnutrition markedly reduces deaths in TB patients in India. Its cheaper, too, than antibiotics and doesnt promote antibiotic resistance. Whats stopping us?