Thread on the 2020 Global Tuberculosis Report released by WHO today.

10M people developed TB in 2019 and 1.4M died. Hardly any change from the previous year.

https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/global-tuberculosis-report-2020

What is important is that the report does include 2020 data on how the #Covid19 pandemic is impacting TB services in many countries.

In India, Indonesia, the Philippines and South Africa, four countries that account for 44% of global TB cases, there were large drops in the reported number of people diagnosed with TB between January and June 2020

WHO estimates that the global number of TB deaths could increase by around 0.2–0.4 million in 2020 alone, if health services are disrupted to the extent that the number of people with TB who are detected and treated falls by 25–50% over a period of 3 months

Most countries are not on track to reach the SDG or UNHLM targets for TB

There are the 10 priority recommendations of the UN Secretary-General’s 2020 progress report on TB for actions needed to accelerate progress towards global TB targets