Africa: Stop TB Partnership Expresses Grave Concern Over WHO Global TB Report Findings and Calls for Increased Funding and Focus on Saving the Lives of Millions of People With TB

14 October 2021
Stop TB Partnership (Geneva)

The Stop TB Partnership notes with concern the data released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the 2021 Global Tuberculosis Report, which features data on disease trends and the response to the epidemic from over 200 countries and areas.

According to the report, tuberculosis (TB) deaths in 2020 have increased for the first time in over a decade, going up to as high as 1.5 million, an upward trend that is expected to worsen in 2021. To make matters worse, in 2020 we saw only 5.8 million people diagnosed and treated with TB, down from 7.1 million in 2019.

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