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"The World Health Organization (WHO) 2023 Global tuberculosis (TB) report
underscores a significant worldwide recovery in the scale-up of TB diagnosis
and treatment services in 2022. It shows an encouraging trend starting to
reverse the detrimental effects of COVID- 19 disruptions on TB services.
Featuring data from 192 countries and areas, the report shows that 7.5 million
people were diagnosed with TB in 2022, making it the highest figure recorded
since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995.
The increase is attributed to good recovery in access to and provision of
health services in many countries. India, Indonesia and the Philippines, which
together accounted for over 60% of the global reductions in the number of
people newly diagnosed with TB in 2020 and 2021, all recovered to beyond 2019
levels in 2022.
“For millennia, our ancestors suffered and died with tuberculosis, without
knowing what it was, what caused it, or how to stop it,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “Today, we have knowledge and tools they
could only have dreamed of. We have political commitment, and we have an
opportunity that no generation in the history of humanity has had: the
opportunity to write the final chapter in the story of TB.”"
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-tb-emissions-china-deforestation-colombia/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
