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 …

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 …

Nov 7, 2023 · In 2022, TB was the second leading infectious disease killer worldwide, after COVID-19. It was also the leading killer of people with HIV and a major cause of deaths …

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 …

• Tuberculosis (TB) is contagious and airborne. •TB is the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 and the 13th leading cause of death worldwide. It was also the leading killer of …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The purpose of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the …

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 …

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 …

6 days 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 …