Africa Health Knowledge Management Portal
Informing Health Decisions and Actions
Global Tuberculosis Report 2019
Global Health Security Capacities
Communicable Diseases
Description
This year��s global TB report reveals that countries are making progress. About 7 million people were reported to have been reached with quality TB care in 2018, up from 6.4 million in 2017. In addition, TB-related deaths dropped from 1.6 million in 2017 to 1.5 million in 2018. However, TB remains the top infectious killer worldwide, with 10 million people falling ill with TB in 2018. Although some countries are significantly accelerating