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A tuberculosis-free world is possible only by 2045 and not 2030, the target year set by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end the epidemic, said a report in British medical journal Lancet. A co-author of the Lancet report also said that India’s goal to end the epidemic by 2025 was too “ambitious" , “unrealistic", and, therefore, unattainable. According to the World Health Organization’s “Global Tuberculosis Report 2018", India accounted for 27% of the 10 million people, who had developed TB in 2017, besides making up 32% of global TB deaths among HIV-negative people, and 27% of combined TB deaths.