World Tuberculosis Report 2022: WHO
Source: Hindustan Times
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What is discussed under World Tuberculosis Report 2022: WHO?
- Key Findings of the Report
Why in News?
According to the World Health Organization’s 2022 Global Tuberculosis report, 10.6 million persons worldwide had TB diagnoses in 2021, up 4.5% from 2020, and 1.6 million patients died from the bacterial illness.
Key Findings of the Report
- India, with 28% of cases, was one of the eight nations that accounted for more than two-thirds (or 68.3%) of all TB patients worldwide.
Image by WikiImages from Pixabay - China (7.4%), the Philippines (7%), Pakistan (5.8%), Nigeria (4.4%), Bangladesh (3.6%), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2.9%) were the other nations.
- Indonesia (9.2% instances) was next.
- In addition to having TB, 187,000 people also have HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
- India alone was responsible for 36% of TB fatalities among HIV-negative persons worldwide, accounting for over 82% of all such deaths.
- With 450,000 new instances of rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) being reported in 2021, the burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) grew by 3% worldwide between 2020 and 2021.
- For the first time in a lot of years, an increase in the number of cases of both TB and DR-TB has been noted, specialists ascribe this to the current Covid-19 epidemic.
- The Covid-19 epidemic in 2021 interrupted various services, including TB services, but it had an especially negative effect on the TB response.
- Many people with the bacterial disease were undiagnosed and untreated as a result of ongoing difficulties in delivering and gaining access to crucial TB services.
- A reported 5.8 million persons had a new TB diagnosis in 2020, down from 7.1 million in 2019. 6.4 million people saw a partial recovery in 2021, although this was still far below pre-pandemic levels.
- India was one of the three nations, along with Indonesia and the Philippines, that contributed 67% of the total worldwide decrease in 2020.
- They made some progress in 2021, but they were still responsible for 60% of the global decline from 2019 to 2021.
- Ten nations were responsible for 75% of the global discrepancy between predicted TB incidence and the reported number of new cases.
- India (24%), Indonesia (13%), the Philippines (10%), Pakistan (6.6%), and Nigeria (6.3%) were the top five contributors.
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