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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.
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 ...
High TB burden country profiles. WHO has published a global tuberculosis (TB) report every year since 1997. The report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease. This set of country profiles are based on data reported by countries and which are ...
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 ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. Tuberculosis is curable and preventable. TB is spread from person to person through the air. When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, they propel the TB germs into the air. A person needs to inhale only a few of these germs to become ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) today released updated global lists of high burden countries for tuberculosis (TB), HIV-associated TB and multidrug/rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB). The new lists are for 2021–2025 and replace those previously used between 2016 and 2020.The lists provide a focus for global action on TB, HIV-associated TB and drug-resistant TB in the countries where ...
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.
Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease that spreads when a person breathes in bacteria breathed out by an infected person. TB is mainly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. About one third of the world’s population is infected with the latent form of the disease, and one-tenth of infected people become ill with active TB ...
The second national TB inventory study in Indonesia. MAF-TB: progress and way forward. 2. TB diagnosis and treatment. 2.1 Case notifications. 2.2 Diagnostic testing. 2.3 TB treatment: coverage & outcomes. 2.4 DR-TB: treatment enrolment, coverage & outcomes. Regions.
BCG vaccine has a documented protective effect against meningitis and disseminated TB in children. It does not prevent primary infection and, more importantly, does not prevent reactivation of latent pulmonary infection, the principal source of bacillary spread in the community. The impact of BCG vaccination on transmission of Mtb is therefore ...