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Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s top infectious killer. Nearly 4500 people lose their lives and 30 000 people fall ill with TB each day. TB is contagious and airborne. It is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. TB is spread from person to person through the air. When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, they propel TB germs into the air. A person needs to inhale only a few of these germs to become infected.About one-quarter of the world's ...
Oct 29, 2024 · Overview. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that most often affects the lungs. It spreads through the air when people with TB cough, sneeze or spit. Tuberculosis is preventable and curable. About a quarter of the global population is estimated to have been infected with TB bacteria.
Oct 27, 2022 · Overview. The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 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.
In March 2021, WHO released the WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 2: Screening – systematic screening for tuberculosis disease (1). These guidelines include 17 new and updated recommendations for the screening of TB disease. Populations identified as priorities for TB screening include contacts of TB patients, people living ...
Global Tuberculosis Report 2021; 3. TB diagnosis & treatment. 3.1 Notifications; 3.2 Diagnostic testing; 3.3 TB treatment; 3.4 Drug-resistant TB treatment; 1. COVID-19 and TB; 2. TB disease burden. 2.1 TB incidence; 2.2 TB mortality; 2.3 TB prevalence surveys; 4. TB prevention; 5. TB financing; 6. UHC & TB determinants. 6.1 Universal Health ...
1. COVID-19 and TB. 1. COVID-19 pandemic and TB. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused enormous health, social and economic impacts in 2020 and 2021. This includes impacts on the provision of and access to essential tuberculosis (TB) services, the number of people diagnosed with TB and notified as TB cases through national disease ...
Oct 29, 2024 · In 2023, an estimated 10.8 million people fell ill with TB worldwide. In 2023, an estimated 10.8 million people fell ill with TB worldwide, including 6.0 million men, 3.6 million women and 1.3 million children and young adolescents. TB is present in all countries and age groups. TB is curable and preventable.
Dec 15, 2022 · The WHO Consolidated Guidelines on Tuberculosis (TB), Module 4: Treatment - Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment 2022 update informs health care professionals in Member States on how to improve treatment and care for patients with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). This document includes two new recommendations – one for the use of a 6-month BPaLM regimen, composed of bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid and moxifloxacin in patients with multidrug-resistant or rifampicin resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB ...
synthetic overlapping peptides that represent specific M. tuberculosis proteins, such as early secretory antigenic target-6 (ESAT-6) and culture filtrate protein 10 (CFP-10). These proteins are present in all M. tuberculosis complex but are absent from BCG vaccine strains and from most nontuberculous preventive treatment.
Feb 25, 2020 · About one fourth of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, and about 5–10% of those infected develop active TB disease in their lifetime. The risk for active TB disease after infection depends on several factors, the most important being the person’s immunological status. TB preventive treatment given to people at highest risk of progressing from TB infection to disease remains a critical activity to achieve the global targets of the ...
