Homeopathic treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients

The WHO declared tuberculosis a global emergency in 1993. India is listed amongst the 22 high-burden TB countries and accounts for 30% of the global burden of TB. The National Tuberculosis Control Program launched in 1962 in India was a failure and a new approach called Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) based on the WHO's Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy was adopted in 1997. After adopting DOTS, treatment success rates more than tripled from 25% to 84% and TB death rates have been cut 7-fold from 29% to 4%. Though DOTS treats the majority of TB patients and prevents ne…