The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report 2025 is a stark reminder that tuberculosis continues to claim more than 1.2 million lives each year, even though it is both preventable and curable. While the world has seen encouraging gains in diagnosis, treatment and innovation, persistent funding gaps and unequal access to care threaten to stall or reverse progress. Drug-resistant TB remains a major public health crisis, with far too many people still unable to access the treatme

Tuberculosis continues to be the world’s deadliest infectious disease, killing over 4,000 people a day. Read the latest Global TB Report 2018: http://bit.ly/2ovhKWc Globally, the average rate of decline in the TB incidence rate was 1.8% between 2016 and 2017. In the Philippines, the incidence rate did not change between those years, while the number of incident TB cases rose from 573,000 in 2016 to 581,000 in 2017. The decline in the incidence rate needs to accelerate to 4-5% per year by 2020 an