Tuberculosis in India, past, present and future.

Abstract

At the outset I must express my special gratitude to Dr. S.P. Pamra, Dr. D.R. Nagpaul, and to Dr. K. Chaudhuri and his colleagues in the NTI and Dr. R. Prabhakar and his colleagues in the TRC Madras who answered many questions that I put to them and made available much unpublished up to date data, and even undertook special analyses. However, the views I express are entirely my own. I hope you will consider them as constructive contributions to what I regard as a most challenging problem of a size and complexity compounded by the large and growing population, and the geographical area of India, the limited resources which can be devoted to any single problem, including health, and within its budget, to a single disease.