Global TB Overview

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Two billion people – one fourth of the world’s population – may be infected with tuberculosis (TB), with 10.6 million becoming ill each year. Despite being preventable and treatable, TB remains a deadly disease. Globally, over 3,500 people lose their lives to TB each day – totaling 1.3 million deaths each year. Additionally, around 30 percent of people who become ill with TB are missed by healthcare screenings and diagnostics and do not get the care they need, leading to poor health outcomes and an increased spread of TB in communities. Each of these untreated people can infect 10 to 15 additional people per year – and 10% of those infected go on to develop active TB in their lifetimes.
  
  CDC and partners are working on the frontlines in the world’s highest TB and TB/HIV burden countries to understand what’s driving the spread of TB and how to stop it. To make progress – and find the missing millions who do not receive the healthcare needed – we must address the drivers of this epidemic in the most at-risk populations and increase access to TB preventive measures. By taking immediate and effective action, we can change the course of the epidemic and finally make TB history.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Global Health Tuberculosis/prevention & Control
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3ddfcacf4875acaa2a0086ee76609d1348286dde05e1d399eca579719cdde010
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/151580/cdc_151580_DS1.pdf
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