India, May 26 -- Nobel laureate Ronald Coase suggested that every solution creates a new problem. India's economic liberalisation of 1991 reduced poverty but shifted us from infectious to lifestyle diseases. Even so, 35 years later, we still have the world's largest tuberculosis (TB) incidence; 220 million Indians harbour the TB pathogen, of which 2.8 million contract the disease and 300,000 die annually. TB exists because we haven't converted a disease control programme into a disease-elimination architecture. A national TB programme, digital public infrastructure, stronger primary care ambition, better diagnostics, shorter treatment regimens, expanding nutritional support, and powerful private sector give us a real shot at eradicating T...