The TB-Free Municipalities model under Project Swasthya Nagaram was launched in Hyderabad, Telangana, with RV Karnan, Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare, officially inaugurating the initiative.
The project involves multiple stakeholders including the State Tuberculosis Cell, Municipal Corporations of Peerzadiguda, Boduppal, and Pocharam, Central TB Division, WHO India, and USAID.
Over three years, the project aims to make these municipalities TB-free by focusing on surveillance, prevention, and comprehensive TB care, with objectives to reduce TB incidence by one-third and decrease related mortality.
Telangana, formed on June 2, 2014, from Andhra Pradesh, is the eleventh largest state in India, located in the south-central region with Hyderabad as its capital.
