Oct 29, 2024 · WHO fact sheet on tuberculosis (TB): includes key facts, definition, global impact, treatment, HIV and TB, multidrug-resistant TB and WHO response.

Jan 22, 2025 · Despite being a preventable and curable disease, 1.5 million people die from TB each year – making it the world’s top infectious killer. TB is the leading cause of death of people with HIV and also a major contributor to antimicrobial resistance.

Oct 29, 2024 · The WHO Global tuberculosis report 2024 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, at global, regional and country levels. This is done in the context of global TB commitments, strategies and targets.

May 21, 2024 · Several World Health Organization resolutions endorsed by Member States at different World Health Assemblies have given the World Health Organization responsibility for monitoring the burden of TB globally and reporting on the response.

Tuberculosis (TB) affects an estimated 10 million people per year (range 8.9–11.0 million) and is one of the world’s leading infectious disease killers. TB is responsible for an estimated 1.2 million TB deaths among HIV-negative people (range, 1.1–1.3 …

1 Guidelines on core components of infection prevention and control programmes at the national and acute health care facility level. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2016 (http://www.who.int/gpsc/core-components.pdf, accessed 18 December 2018). 2 Methods used by WHO to estimate the global burden of TB disease.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The purpose of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the status of the TB epidemic, and of pro-gress in the response to the epidemic – at global, regional and country levels – in the context of global commitments

Jan 31, 2025 · According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the South-East Asian Region bore the highest burden of new tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2022, accounting for 46%. Africa followed closely at 23%, and the Western Pacific region reported 18% of new cases.

The main changes from the first edition of the guidelines include a new, strong recommendation on TPT for contacts of multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB); the integration of recommendations from the 2021 WHO TB screening guidelines and the 2022 WHO guidelines on testing of TB infection; withdrawal of two older recommendations that ...

The World Health Organization relies on mortality data and surveys of tuberculosis prevalence and drug resistance from individual countries. With this data, statistical modeling is used to estimate the incidence of tuberculosis in all countries, as shown on this map.