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WHO’s 2023 Roadmap to End Maternal Tuberculosis

November 21 , 2023 363 days 421 0
  • 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.

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