In 2013, Indian advocates identified a critical problem of shortages of TB medicines. In June 2013, members of the Global TB Community Advisory Board (TB CAB) supported a letter urging the Prime Minister of India to immediately address TB drug stock-outs in the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP).
Following inaction by the Indian government and denial of the issue by the RNTCP, the TB CAB led a protest at the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health, taking over the stage and microphone during a plenary presentation being delivered by, an additional secretary in India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and demanding that Indian officials stop denying the issue and address the underlying causes of stock-outs in their country. An additional secretary in India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and demanding that Indian officials stop denying the issue and…
