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Global TB Report 2022

November 6 , 2022 753 days 524 0
  • 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.

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