Tuberculosis Causes As Many Global Deaths As HIV/AIDS

 

Tuberculosis has joined HIV/AIDS as the top infectious disease killer on the planet - according to World Health Organization(WHO)

TB killed 1.5 million people in 2014, including 400,000 HIV/AIDS patients who died of TB-related complications

According to the 2015 Global Tuberculosis Report,an annual report compiled by the WHO and released this week, it would take $1.4 billion in additional treatment funding to address the global tuberculosis epidemic. 

Another $1.3 billion in research and development funds could provide better drugs and vaccine development. 



An Indian doctor examines a X-ray picture of a tuberculosis patient in a district TB center on World Tuberculosis Day in Jammu, India, on March 24, 2014.

 

India has the highest incidence of TB in the world, according to the World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report 2013, with as many as 2.4 million cases.