#MeTooIndia: 54% Rise In Sexual Harassment Reported At Workplaces Between 2014-17

How A Poor Women’s Collective Is Helping Rebuild Flood-Wrecked Kerala

In The Himalayas, Living The Crisis That The IPCC Report Warns Of

How Kerala Has Enlisted The Private Sector In Its War Against TB

In One Kerala District, A Community Group Supports TB Patients At No Cost To Govt

Latest Stories

How Once ‘Backward’ Idukki Is Leading Kerala And India In Ending TB

Menaka Rao

October 9, 2018

Idukki, Kerala: In 2006, Idukki was the worst performing district in tuberculosis (TB) control in Ke...

Food, Water, Disease Crises For Nations Like India If Global Warming Not Quickly Contained: UN Report

Bhasker Tripathi

October 8, 2018

New Delhi: If India wishes to avoid the water, food and health crises and intensifying natural disas...

How Kerala Is Fighting TB, And Winning

Menaka Rao

October 8, 2018

Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Idukki (Kerala): Agathi mandiram (poor people’s home) in Kollam city was b...

India, World’s Second-Largest Coal Consumer, Awaits Grim, New Global Climate Report

Bhasker Tripathi

October 7, 2018

New Delhi: Recent extreme weather events, such as floods in Kerala, wildfires in Uttarakhand and hea...

Swachh Bharat: A Tale Of Disappearing Toilets, Vanishing Data

Devashish Deshpande

October 6, 2018

New Delhi: October 2, 2018, marks the completion of the fourth and penultimate lap in a five-year sp...

Support IndiaSpend’s award-winning investigative journalism.

Your tax-deductible contribution to IndiaSpend will help us, and other publications around the country, reveal critical stories that otherwise wouldn’t be told - stories that make a difference!

Donate

Just 10 years ago, Idukki was one of Kerala’s worst performing districts in tuberculosis (TB) control. In 2006, the district TB Centre decided to fill all vacancies of medical officers and laboratory technicians in order to improve access to diagnosis and treatment, and proactively screen the population to detect cases instead of only testing those who showed up at a doctor’s with TB symptoms. This led to an initial spike in the number of cases detected until 2009, after which the number has steadily fallen. This shows how simple improvements in the public healthcare infrastructure can help India’s anti-TB efforts. This is the second of our four-part series on Kerala’s successful TB programme.