WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY 2022- INVEST TO END TB, SAVE LIVES

 WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY 2022- INVEST TO END TB, SAVE LIVES

World Tuberculosis (TB) Day 2022

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease that is a major source of illness and one of the leading causes of mortality around the world. TB was the biggest cause of death from a single infectious agent until the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, ranking ahead of HIV/AIDS.

TUBERCULOSIS

Every year on March 24, we observe World Tuberculosis (TB) Day to raise public mindfulness of the disease's terrible health, social, and economic effects, as well as to intensify efforts to combat the global TB epidemic. The date denotes the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch declared that he had found the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and relieving this infection.

TB is still one of the most lethal infectious diseases on the planet. Every day, more than 4100 people die from tuberculosis (TB), and almost 28,000 people become infected with this avoidable and treatable disease. Since the year 2000, global efforts to eliminate tuberculosis have saved an estimated 66 million lives. Worldwide endeavors to battle TB have saved an expected 66 million lives since the year 2000. The COVID-19 epidemic, on the other hand, has halted years of progress in the fight against tuberculosis. TB deaths climbed in 2020 for the first time in over a decade.

Invest to End TB, Save Lives 

This Year, the theme of World TB DAY 2022 is 'Invest to End TB Save Lives- passes the earnest need on to invest resources to ratchet up the battle against TB and meet global leaders' commitments to end TB. This is especially important in light of the COVID-19 epidemic, which has jeopardized End TB progress, and to guarantee evenhanded admittance to anticipation and care in accordance with WHO's drive towards accomplishing Universal Health Coverage.