KATHMANDU: Tuberculosis claimed over half million people in SAARC countries in the year 2017, according to Dr Rajendra Pant Director at SAARC Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Center. On a global scale the disease claimed total 1.8 million last year whereas 4.3 people were deprived of the treatment.
Similarly, around 70,000 people died of HIV/AIDS in the SAARC countries in 2017. Meanwhile, a two day SAARC parliamentary meeting is being held in Kathmandu in the first week of May.
The meeting is being held for the first time with the joint initiative of Ministry of Health and Population, House of Representatives’ Education and Health Committee and SAARC Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Centre.
The meeting shall deliberate on the status of the disease, promotion of investment to curb the disease, relations of the interstate acts and rules, among others. The meeting will be attended by high level officials from the Health Ministry of the SAARC countries.
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