{"id":85049,"date":"2020-10-19T16:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18006"},"modified":"2021-06-22T17:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:35:07","slug":"global-tuberculosis-report-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-tuberculosis-report-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Global tuberculosis report 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The World Health Organization(WHO) has released the Global tuberculosis report 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Global tuberculosis report:<\/strong> It has been published annually since 1997.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, regional and country levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>TB Cases: <\/strong>Globally, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with TB in 2019, a number that has been declining very slowly in recent years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deaths due to TB: <\/strong>There were an estimated 1.2 million TB deaths among HIV-negative people in 2019 (a reduction from 1.7 million in 2000) and an additional 208,000 deaths among HIV-positive people (a reduction from 678,000 in 2000).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest TB Cases: <\/strong>Eight countries accounted for two thirds of the global TB Cases: India (26%), Indonesia (8.5%), China (8.4%), Philippines (6.0%), Pakistan (5.7%), Nigeria (4.4%), Bangladesh (3.6%) and South Africa (3.6%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drug-resistant TB<\/strong>: Drug-resistant Tuberculosis continues to be a public health threat.The three countries with the largest share of the global burden were India (27%), China (14%) and the Russian Federation (8%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tuberculosis(TB): <\/strong>It is an infectious airborne bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>End TB Strategy: <\/strong>It was adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2014.It serves as a blueprint for countries to reduce TB incidence by 80%, TB deaths by 90% and to eliminate catastrophic costs for TB-affected households by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The World Health Organization(WHO) has released the Global tuberculosis report 2020. &nbsp; Facts: Global tuberculosis report: It has been published annually since 1997. Purpose: It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, regional and country levels. &nbsp; Key&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-tuberculosis-report-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Global tuberculosis report 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2184],"class_list":["post-85049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-global-tuberculosis-report-2020","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704625931},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}