Context:
It highlights how women tuberculosis patients in Mumbai face delayed diagnosis, long travel, wage loss and high treatment-related costs. It shows that TB is not only a medical issue but also a social and economic burden, especially for poor working women.
- Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- It mainly affects the lungs, but extrapulmonary TB can affect other body parts.
- TB spreads through air when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks.
- India has one of the world’s highest TB burdens and runs the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP).
- Drug-sensitive TB is treatable with standard medicines, but MDR-TB develops when bacteria become resistant to key drugs.
- Delayed diagnosis, incomplete treatment and wrong medication can worsen TB and increase transmission.
- Women face additional barriers due to unpaid care work, stigma, mobility restrictions, wage loss and poor access to healthcare.
- Urban poor settlements often face overcrowding, undernutrition and poor ventilation, increasing TB vulnerability.
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