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Global Tuberculosis report 2024
November 6 , 2024
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- The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report 2024.
- Of the estimated 10.84 million people who fell ill with TB in 2023, only 8.16 million were detected and notified, leading to a gap of 2.7 million cases.
- This is the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995.
- Thus, the TB become the leading infectious killer again, surpassing Covid-19 in 2023.
- There is a massive funding gap for TB programs, only $ 5.7 billion of the $ 22 billion funding target was available in 2023.
- Globally, TB incidence rose by 4.6% between 2020 and 2023.
- This reverses the declines of about 2% per year for most of the past 2 decades.
- India had an estimated 28 lakh TB cases in 2023, accounting for 26% of the global cases.
- There were estimated 3.15 lakh TB-related deaths, accounting for 29% of the deaths globally.
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