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Thursday 17 May 2018
WHO - Global tuberculosis report 2017

World Health Organization. Global tuberculosis report 2017. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017.

SUMMARY
The WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in care and prevention at global, regional and country levels. Overall, the latest picture is one of a still high burden of disease, and progress that is not fast enough to reach targets set in the End TB Strategy or to make major headway in closing persistent gaps. TB is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide and the leading cause from a single infectious agent, ranking above HIV/AIDS. In 2016, there were an estimated 1.3 million TB deaths among HIV-negative people and an additional 374 000 deaths among HIV-positive people. An estimated 10.4 million people fell ill with TB in 2016. Drug-resistant TB is a continuing threat. In 2016, there were 600 000 new cases with resistance to rifampicin (RRTB), the most effective first-line drug, of which 490 000 had multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).

The report is available here.