https://arunmitra.com/categories/tuberculosis/ Recent content in Tuberculosis on Arun Mitra Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://arunmitra.com/research/tb-notification-seasonality-india/ Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://arunmitra.com/research/tb-notification-seasonality-india/ Background Tuberculosis notifications in India rise and fall over the year, and that seasonality is often read as a property of the disease — transmission, reactivation, or care-seeking shifting with the seasons. But notifications are produced by a reporting system, not just by biology. Campaign drives, working-day patterns, and public-sector reporting behaviour can imprint their own rhythm on the data. This study asks whether India’s apparent TB seasonality is a disease signal or, in part, a reporting artefact. https://arunmitra.com/research/tb-notification-gap-india/ Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://arunmitra.com/research/tb-notification-gap-india/ Background India carries the world’s largest tuberculosis burden, and a central challenge for the National TB Elimination Programme is the gap between the TB cases that occur and the cases that are actually notified. National coverage figures hide enormous local variation: some districts notify nearly everyone they should, while others miss a large share of their true burden. This project asks where India misses tuberculosis — at a resolution fine enough to be actionable — and why. https://arunmitra.com/research/tb-goa-differentiated-care/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://arunmitra.com/research/tb-goa-differentiated-care/ Background India’s National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) has set an ambitious elimination target, yet Goa has reported a persistently high TB death rate, around 9% in 2023 against roughly 4.2% nationally. Diabetes, alcohol use, and loss to follow-up are commonly cited as drivers, but concrete local evidence has been limited. This project applies data-science and epidemiological methods to NTEP (Ni-kshay) records to characterise TB notification, comorbidity, and differentiated-care patterns in the state.