Tuberculosis disease among women of Varanasi city A gender perspective in Medical Geography

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a major infectious disease that causes illness and death worldwide. It was declared a public health emergency by WHO in 1992.Globally 8.4 million people are estimated to develop TB each year, new infections occur at about 1 per second and nearly 2 million deaths results from the disease (WHO, 2010).Overall one third of the world s population is currently infected with the tuberculosis bacillus, over 90 per cent of them is in developing countries only. India is one among the TB burden country in the world and accounts for nearly 20 per cent of global burden of tuberculosis. There are list of factors causing tuberculosis among the newline