Tuberculosis Prevalence is Highest among Rural Males of Bihar State (India)

Annual Health Survey has been conducted in the year 2010-11 for nine States namely, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and Assam.  Fact Sheets for the same have been utilized to have the prevalence of Tuberculosis in these States have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons as per their sex and residence. 

State/ District	Diagnosed Tuberculosis illness (per 100,000 population)
	Person			Male			Female
	Total	Rural	Urban	Total	Rural	Urban	Total	Rural	Urban
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Assam	288	306	199	354	381	228	218	229	168
Bihar	479	505	307	546	581	321	409	426	292
Chhattisgarh	195	196	191	251	262	213	137	128	168
Jharkhand	260	283	193	335	382	206	180	180	180
Madhya Pradesh	169	185	138	200	224	152	135	142	122
Odisha	139	148	92	174	189	104	103	107	81
Rajasthan	108	115	86	134	146	96	80	82	75
Uttar Pradesh	290	303	243	327	347	260	250	257	225
Uttarakhand	189	189	187	219	223	210	158	156	163

It may be seen from the above table that Tuberculosis illness is prevalent highest in Bihar and lowest in Rajasthan among the mentioned nine survey states.  Invariably, the burden of the disease is more in rural than urban and males experience this deadly disease more that the females in all the regions of these states.  Thus the disease burden is not more than 0.6% anywhere in these states.  The health authorities may plan their course of actions accordingly in order to completely wipe off this disease from India.