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While India has set the goal of eliminating tuberculosis five years ahead of the global target, the recently released government report has been a dampener — the number of cases and deaths recorded in 2023 was nowhere close to the targets that the country had set for itself. But all is not bleak. The Ni-kshay portal, which has been tracking cases, offering quick and accurate tests, has resulted in fewer “missing cases.”
The positive development has been the improvement in the actual number of cases diagnosed. With a record high of 25.5 lakh cases testing positive in 2023, the gap between the estimates and actual numbers is closing. The report flags risk factors like undernourishment, HIV, diabetes, alcohol use and smoking that affect both the infection rate and treatment outcomes.
Source – https://indianexpress.com/article/health-wellness/india-tb-report-
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Passage 2
Households across the globe wasted over one billion meals a day in 2022, even as 783 million people struggled with hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity, according to the Food Waste Index Report 2024.
The report, released ahead of the International Day of Zero Waste, noted that in 2022, there were 1.05 billion tonnes of food waste generated (including inedible parts), amounting to 132 kilograms per capita and almost one-fifth of all food available to consumers.
The report stressed the importance of expanding and strengthening data infrastructure to enable the tracking and monitoring of food waste, pointing out that “many low- and middle-income countries continue to lack adequate systems for tracking progress to meet Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 of halving food waste, particularly in retail and food services.”
Source- https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/world-
