The World Health Organization’s latest global report on tuberculosis has good and bad news for African countries.

The WHO's latest report on tuberculosis shows that it's once again the leading cause of death from a single infectious ...

A record 8.2 million new tuberculosis cases were diagnosed worldwide last year, the World Health Organization said -- the ...

Last year about 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed, meaning they could access suitable treatment – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995 – up from 7.5 million ...

Improvements in tuberculosis screening in Equatorial Guinea have revealed the substantial burden of multidrug-resistant ...

"The fact that TB still kills and sickens so many people is an outrage, when we have the tools to prevent it ... a sputum sample during a tuberculosis screening at a health centre in Valenzuela ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is an airborne bacterial respiratory disease. Once the cause of a quarter of all deaths in the U.S., ...

The WHO report noted that a majority of the funding for the TB programme comes from government resources. Over the years, ...

The WHO acknowledged a drop in India's TB incidence - from 237 per lakh population in 2015, to 195 per lakh population in 2023 accounting for a 17.7 per cent decline - this is more than double the ...

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India has achieved a 17.7% decline in tuberculosis incidence, more than double the global average, due to dedicated health ...

India has recorded a 17.7 per cent decline in tuberculosis incidence from 237 per lakh population in 2015 to 195 in 2023, which is more than double the global decline of 8.3 per cent, Health Ministry ...