5 (and a Half) Startling Stats on Tuberculosis

Dr. Lucica Ditiu, executive secretary of the STOP TB Partnership, put the tuberculosis crisis into context for NPF fellows with some startling statistics.

1. 1.5 million people died of TB in 2013, equal to the population of Lyon, France.

a. In South Africa alone 5,000 people die from TB each month.

2. Of the 9 million people sickened with TB each year, 3 million don’t get the care they need.

3. The economic impact of TB in the European Union alone is $8 billion a year.

4. The drug-resistant strain of TB – called MDR-TB — struck 480,000 people last year.

5. Of the nations with the worst outbreaks of MDR-TB, 15 countries in Europe account for 55 percent of those cases, followed by Asia (30 percent) and Africa (15 percent).

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