The World Health Organization released the Global TB Report 2022.
It is released every year to provide a comprehensive assessment of the tuberculosis epidemic and the progress of countries in preventing, diagnosing and treating the disease at the global, regional and national levels.
Over 10.6 million people fell ill because of tuberculosis in 2021.
This is a 4.5 per cent increase when compared with 2020 figures.
6 million people have lost their lives to tuberculosis.
Of these, 187,000 are HIV patients.
The burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) has risen by 3 per cent between 2020 and 2021.
Last year, 450 000 new cases of rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) were recorded.
The number of reported cases of TB fell from 7.1 million in 2019 to 5.8 million in 2020.
The situation improved in 2021, with 6.4 million people reporting TB.
The global spending on essential TB services has declined from 6 billion USD in 2019 to 5.4 billion USD in 2021.
This is less than 50 per cent of the global target of 13 billion USD annually by 2022.
Over the past 10 years, 79 per cent of the funding for TB services in 2021 was from domestic sources.