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The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2023, released Tuesday, said that 30 high TB-burden countries accounted for 87 percent of the worlds total cases in 2022..
Moreover, it said that two-thirds of the total came from eight countries: India (27 percent), Indonesia (10 percent), China (7.1 percent), the Philippines (7.0 percent), Pakistan (5.7 percent), Nigeria (4.5 percent), Bangladesh (3.6 percent) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (3.0 percent)...
It said that the net decrease in TB-related deaths from 2015 to 2022 was 19 percent, falling far short of the WHO End TB Strategy milestone of a 75 percent reduction by 2025.. the cumulative reduction in the TB incidence rate from 2015 to 2022 was 8.7 percent, far from the WHO End TB Strategy milestone of a 50 percent reduction by 2025, the WHO said, adding that about 50 percent of TB patients and their households face total costs that are catastrophic, far from the WHO End TB Strategy target of zero...
India, Indonesia, and the Philippines together accounted for over 60 percent of the global reductions in new TB cases in 2020 and 2021, the report said, adding that the reduction in cases had now gone back to the pre-pandemic level...
Significantly, the India TB Report 2023 said that the year 2022 saw an increase of 32 percent in the number of drug-resistant cases detected under the National TB Elimination Programme as compared to 2021...
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