Tuberculosis Report News Today

The authorities have warned of ‘a small number’ of people who have been diagnosed with this respiratory illness

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global challenge. According to the 2023 Global Tuberculosis Report (GTR 2023), TB was the world’s second leading cause of death from a single infectious agent in 2022, after coronavirus disease, and it caused almost twice

The African country combats disease using AI and a community approach in overcrowded jails and mines with surging infection rates

The number of patients in this small country who suffer from the infectious disease exceeds 2,000 a year, proportionally seven times more than the European average

The World Health Organization (WHO) has brought a sliver of positive news in these awful times of Hamas terrorism, Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine and China’s increasing military assertiveness in the Taiwan Straits and South China Sea. The total number of TB-related deaths, including those among people with HIV, stood at 1.3 million in 2022, […]

Tuberculosis is rarely in the spotlight. But behind the scenes it’s one of the top infectious killers in the world. In 2022 alone, TB killed over 1.3 million people, including 167,000 people with HIV — that’s a staggering 25,000 deaths every week. Despite being a treatable and curable disease, the TB incidence rate rose by 3.9% between 2020 and 2022. TB rivals COVID-19 as the world’s deadliest infectious disease, and is a greater threat to those living in the world’s poorest and most m...

Tuberculosis (TB) response is bouncing back from disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but more effort is needed to end the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The finding comes in the latest WHO Global Tuberculosis Report ...

Tuberculosis (TB) response is bouncing back from disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but more effort is needed to end the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

Access to the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) is rebounding following serious setbacks during the pandemic, but progress is still far short of meeting the World Health Organization’s 2025 targets. The number of people newly diagnosed with TB reached 7.5 million globally in 2022—the highest since monitoring began in 1995 and above the pre-covid baseline of 7.1 million in 2019, according to WHO’s 2023 Global Tuberculosis Report.1 The number of reported cases dropped to 5.8 milli...

After two years of devastating disruptions due to Covid-19, tuberculosis programs are getting back on track.