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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 given nutritional support to improve TB treatment outcomes.  

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, .