Estimating the health and macroeconomic burdens of tuberculosis in India, 2021-2040: A fully-integrated modelling study

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Researchers model cases of tuberculosis in India over the next two decades.

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India could see more than 62.4 million cases of tuberculosis in the two decades to 2040, with scaling-up of existing treatment regimens potentially generating at least US$28 billion in GDP gains

 

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Article Title: Estimating the health and macroeconomic burdens of tuberculosis in India, 2021-2040: A fully-integrated modelling study

Author Countries: United Kingdom, Denmark

Funding: This work was funded by Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, agreement number 2110-5191. All authors received this award. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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Journal

PLOS Medicine

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1004491 

Method of Research

Computational simulation/modeling