Tuberculosis is again the leading cause of deaths from infectious disease after COVID-19 displaced it briefly during the ...

India tops the list of 30 countries with high burden of tuberculosis cases, according to the latest World Health Organisation ...

A prospective birth cohort study conducted in South Africa found that children who grow up in a setting where tuberculosis ...

“WHO urges all countries to make good on the concrete commitments they have made to expand the use of those tools, and to end ...

Factors that can increase this risk include: having been diagnosed with a TB infection in the past 2 years not completing appropriate treatment for TB in the past injecting illegal drugs Children ...

The WHO reports that TB cases hit a record high in 2023, with more than 8 million diagnoses and 1.25 million deaths, meaning it is once again the leading cause of death from infectious disease after ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood. An estimated 1.2 ...

According to the Global Tuberculosis Report 2024, India had the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden in 2023. Over half the cases ...

The WHO said a significant number of new TB cases were driven by five major risk factors: undernutrition, HIV (human ...

But there's a silent killer also making its way across the border: tuberculosis. America's woke public health authorities are more concerned with equity -- redistributing health resources among ...

Increased awareness among healthcare providers and the increased risk groups, such as people living ... accessible to the ...