A recent study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Global Health reveals that providing food baskets to 2.8 million tuberculosis (TB) patients in India could prevent over 120,000 deaths annually. The research, led by Pranay Sinha (assistant professor of medicine at Boston University), emphasizes that undernutrition is a major modifiable risk factor for TB, leading to immune suppression and treatment failure. The collaborative study with India's National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) found that nutritional support is a cost-effective strategy, with estimated health gains costing around USD 141 per intervention, significantly below India's benchmark of USD 550. This suggests that scaling up nutritional support is not only ethically imperative but also a financially sound investment. The findings are supported by previous research indicating that nutritional support can drastically reduce new TB cases among family members of patients. With TB being a major public health challenge in India, these insights underscore the urgent need for effective nutritional interventions as part of the broader strategy for TB elimination.