Chennai: City is planning a Zero TB Cities project in order to reduce the TB patient’s death, this reduces impact of the TB prevalence in the city by 3-5 years.

The new strategy has been started in Chennai to reduce the TB patient’s death that is Zero TB Cities project, mainly implemented for decreasing the number of new cases annually and impact of the TB prevalence in the city by 3-5 years.

One of two cities has been chosen in Chennai where the Zero TB Cities project will be trying to create an “island of elimination” and Lima in Peru is the other city of that project. As soon as possible the project will be officially commenced in Chennai in a few months’ time.

The Municipal Corporation of Chennai will be executed this project with the Chennai-based Reach and the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis supporting it.

Tom Nicholson connect in research at the Duke Centre for International Development, Durham said that U.S based team which was partnered with the Clinton Health Access Initiative India, for doing wide scoping mission over all major Indian cities starting in 2014, over the many visits the Chennai was the strongest site for searching a Zero TB City approach in India.

Mr. Nicholson is sure that TB can be has been controlled in thousands of settings n the past although the diseases in airborne and large numbers of people polluted with TB bacteria which is acting as a tank.

With the combined effort between Harvard’s Department and Social Medicine, Duke Center for international development and Duke University’s Sanford school of public policy the project made. The stop partnership of the TB provides the teamwork of the operational and strategic.