FACT-CHECK

● Tuberculosis (TB) affected 2.64 million Indians in 2019 and killed nearly 450,000 people in the country. The government is calling for the elimination of TB by 2025, and there is a National Strategic Plan 2020-2025 with ambitious ideas in place.

● The World Malaria Report (WMR) 2020 released by WHO, which gives the estimated cases for malaria across the world, based on mathematical projections, indicates that India has made considerable progress in reducing its malaria burden. India has a vision of a malaria free country by 2027 and elimination by 2030.

● India has the third largest HIV epidemic in the world, with 2.1 million people living with HIV. As a signatory to the United Nations declaration on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), India is committed to achieving the “End of AIDS” as a public health threat by 2030.