India, May 3 -- Delhi has significantly scaled up its tuberculosis (TB) elimination efforts this year under the National TB Elimination Programme, aligning with India's goal of eliminating TB as a public health threat. The initiative, implemented through the city's health system, emphasises early detection, universal treatment access and community-based support to reduce transmission in dense urban populations.

The government has expanded its active case-finding strategy, conducting large-scale screenings in high-risk zones such as slums, migrant settlements, homeless shelters and densely populated neighbourhoods. Mobile diagnostic units equipped with digital X-ray machines and rapid molecular testing tools have been deployed to identify...