CDC fights against global TB

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.)
• Description:
  2 billion people infected with TB
  
  1/3 of the world population
  
  Each Year:
  
  • 9.6 Million sick with active TB
  
  • 480,000 New cases of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB)
  
  • 1.5 Million deaths
  
  Preventable, Treatable, Curable:
  
  • 37 Million lives saved
  
  CDC's Impact:
  
  CDC: Identifying new approaches to improve TB prevention and care worldwide
  
  • Developing new tools to find and cure TB
  
  • Strengthening surveillance systems to identify and target TB hot spots
  
  • Transforming the world's approach to diagnosing TB among those with HIV
  
  • Informed the global roadmap to find, cure and prevent TB in children
  
  • Establishing best practices to end TB transmission in health facilities
  
  • Leading research to improve treatment for drug-resistant TB
  
  global_tb_2016.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Global Health International Cooperation Tuberculosis/prevention & Control
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Name as Subject:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 inforgraphic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:454a0538a675de04f3f252ba56331058fcb88a757862ff8036f34d18d955f45a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/38246/cdc_38246_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.07 MB ]