29 October 2024 – The World Health Organization (WHO) published a new report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023 – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995. This represents a notable increase from 7.5 million reported […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) End TB Strategy emphasizes the importance of early tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and universal access to drug-susceptibility testing (DST). Despite these efforts, significant diagnostic gaps persist globally. In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million people contracted TB, with 7.5 million newly diagnosed cases, but only 4.0 million […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the second edition of its consolidated guidelines on TPT. The 21 recommendations contained in the second edition of the guidelines cover critical steps in programmatic management of TPT. The main changes from the first edition of the guidelines include a new, strong recommendation […]
