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Event Title
Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in twentieth Century India
Event Details
<strong>Centre of Social Medicine & Community Health
School of Social Sciences</strong>
<strong>Dr Niels Brimnes</strong>
( Associate Professor of History and South Asian Studies, Univeristy of Aarhus, Denmark )
Presentation on
<strong>Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in twentieth Century India</strong>
Date :<strong> November 3rd, 2016</strong>
<strong>Abstract:</strong> Dr Niels Brimnes, Aarhus University, Denmark has recently published the book "Launguished Hopes. Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in twentieth Century India" [Orient Blackswan]. The book is a comprehensive analysis of tuberculosis control in India in the twentieth century. It narrates how the disease was ‘discovered’, how it has been understood, and how national and international agencies have struggled to bring it under control. His focus is on the first two decades after independence, when tuberculosis control received unprecedented attention and underwent fundamental transformations. In this period the world’s largest vaccination campaign was rolled out in India, and new antibiotic drugs were distributed to infected Indians through the ambitious National Tuberculosis Programme. The analysis ends with the early 1990s, when Indian authorities realised that 80 years of control efforts had achieved little, and prepared to revamp the official control programme.