Oct 29, 2024 · WHO fact sheet on tuberculosis (TB): includes key facts, definition, global impact, treatment, HIV and TB, multidrug-resistant TB and WHO response.

Jan 22, 2025 · Despite being a preventable and curable disease, 1.5 million people die from TB each year – making it the world’s top infectious killer. TB is the leading cause of death of people with HIV and also a major contributor to antimicrobial resistance.

Oct 29, 2024 · The WHO Global tuberculosis report 2024 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, at global, regional and country levels. This is done in the context of global TB commitments, strategies and targets.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has implemented and scaled-up three important global public health strategies (i.e., DOTS, Stop TB, and End TB) to improve the ... Tuberculosis (TB) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.

Tuberculosis (TB) affects an estimated 10 million people per year (range 8.9–11.0 million) and is one of the world’s leading infectious disease killers. TB is responsible for an estimated 1.2 million TB deaths among HIV-negative people (range, 1.1–1.3 …

May 21, 2024 · WHO TB Burden Estimates for the 2022 Global TB Report. WHO-generated estimates of TB mortality, incidence, case fatality ratio and treatment coverage (previously called case detection rate). World health statistics 2024: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals.

WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 2: screening – systematic screening for tuberculosis disease. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) data. CIP data are available at http://apps.who.int/iris. Sales, rights and licensing.

1 Guidelines on core components of infection prevention and control programmes at the national and acute health care facility level. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2016 (http://www.who.int/gpsc/core-components.pdf, accessed 18 December 2018). 2 Methods used by WHO to estimate the global burden of TB disease.

1 day ago · According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the South-East Asian Region bore the highest burden of new tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2022, accounting for 46%. Africa followed closely at 23%, and the Western Pacific region reported 18% of new cases.

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