P: The funds are intended to offset the loss of wages due to TB and to help with travel and nutrition.
Q: The Central TB Division has said the government would hand over a sum of 500 rupees a month t o each of India’s 35 lakh diagnosed TB patients in order to strengthen the fight against the disease.
R: An early study from a prisoner-of-war c amp in Germany in the 1940s showed that Soviet inmates, who didn’t receive extra rations from the Red Cross as their British counterparts did, were around 16 times more likely to develop the disease.
S: Yet, much more needs to be done to protect TB patients from the effects of ma lnutrition, which has a complicated relationship with TB.