The UN health organisation has said that Tuberculosis remains the world’s leading infectious killer, after killing an estimated 1.23 million lives last year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said this in its annual overview on Wednesday also saying there have been some gains in the fight against Tuberculosis.
The head of the WHO department for HIV, TB, hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, Tereza Kasaeva, says TB cases and deaths are both declining “for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic
However, Kasaeva lamented that funding cuts and persistent drivers of the epidemic threaten to undo the gains, nonetheless with political commitment, sustained investment, and global solidarity, they can sustain the fight.
