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ndia recorded the largest number of tuberculosis cases in the world last year, according to a report by the WHO that said 1.5 million people died in 2014 from the disease which ranks alongside HIV as a leading killer worldwide.
World Health Organisation’s Global tuberculosis Report 2015, released on Wednesday, said that of the 9.6 million new TB cases in 2014, 58% were in the South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions. India, Indonesia and China had the largest number of cases at 23%, 10% and 10% respectively of the global total in 2014. Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa also had high numbers of TB cases last year.
Nearly 1.5 million people died from the disease last year, including 140,000 children, according to the report. “Most of these deaths could have been prevented. The disease ranks alongside HIV as a leading killer worldwide,” it said.
Approximately 90% of total TB deaths (among HIV-negative and HIV-positive people) and 80% of TB deaths among HIV-negative people occurred in the African and South-East Asia Regions in 2014. India and Nigeria accounted for about one-third of global TB deaths (both including and excluding those among HIV-positive people), the report added.
The report said that intensified efforts, such as those already being made in India, are needed to ensure that all cases are detected, notified to national surveillance systems, and treated according to international standards.
It said that in order to reduce TB’s overall burden, detection and treatment gaps need to be closed, funding shortfalls filled and new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines developed. Effective diagnosis and treatment saved 43 million lives between 2000 and 2015, according to the report, the 20th in a series of annual evaluations produced by WHO.
India recorded largest number of tuberculosis cases in 2014 - Livemint
World Health Organisation’s Global tuberculosis Report 2015, released on Wednesday, said that of the 9.6 million new TB cases in 2014, 58% were in the South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions. India, Indonesia and China had the largest number of cases at 23%, 10% and 10% respectively of the global total in 2014. Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa also had high numbers of TB cases last year.
Nearly 1.5 million people died from the disease last year, including 140,000 children, according to the report. “Most of these deaths could have been prevented. The disease ranks alongside HIV as a leading killer worldwide,” it said.
Approximately 90% of total TB deaths (among HIV-negative and HIV-positive people) and 80% of TB deaths among HIV-negative people occurred in the African and South-East Asia Regions in 2014. India and Nigeria accounted for about one-third of global TB deaths (both including and excluding those among HIV-positive people), the report added.
The report said that intensified efforts, such as those already being made in India, are needed to ensure that all cases are detected, notified to national surveillance systems, and treated according to international standards.
It said that in order to reduce TB’s overall burden, detection and treatment gaps need to be closed, funding shortfalls filled and new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines developed. Effective diagnosis and treatment saved 43 million lives between 2000 and 2015, according to the report, the 20th in a series of annual evaluations produced by WHO.
India recorded largest number of tuberculosis cases in 2014 - Livemint
