The World Health Organization said in its revised 2023 roadmap toward ending tuberculosis among children and adolescents.
The roadmap tells countries to provide 90 per cent of people at high risk of developing TB with access to preventive treatment by 2027.
About 90 per cent of people living with TB should be diagnosed and treated by 2027.
This translates to providing life-saving treatment for up to 45 million people between 2023 and 2027.
It will be including up to 4.5 million children and up to 1.5 million people with drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Only 19 per cent of the target to provide treatment for 115,000 children and young adolescents with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) was met.
Of the 1.3 million TB deaths in 2022, 214,000 TB deaths were of children 14 years old and below.
As much as 96 per cent of deaths occurred in children who did not access TB treatment.