Tuberculosis
Editorial page
Published on 22.02.2019
According to the WHO, there are around 10 million new cases of tuberculosis each year and 1.5 million deaths from this infectious disease. A quarter of those diagnosed live on the African continent, where the higher the proportion of HIV-positive people, the more rapidly TB develops.
Challenges include under-diagnosis, as many people are unaware that they have the disease, and the emergence of treatment-resistant forms.
Only around two out of five people with drug-resistant tuberculosis had access to treatment in 2022. In recent years, major progress has been made in the fight against tuberculosis, in particular by offering shorter and more effective treatments for resistant forms, but questions remain about their use in the most vulnerable populations.
