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WHO’s 2023 Roadmap to End Maternal Tuberculosis
November 21 , 2023
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- 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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