Experts from the world health organization (who) has pronounced that a disease that annually takes the most human lives, is tuberculosis. The number of fatal victims of tuberculosis ahead of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), according to the report of the organization.
“In 2017, about 10 million people living on the planet, fell ill with tuberculosis. Died of illness 1.6 million people”, – stated in the message who.
The experts have concluded: not less than 3.5 million cases of tuberculosis each year are not diagnosed or not recorded, and in low-and middle-income countries for treatment and prevention of disease do not have enough money. According to experts, this 2018 the shortfall in the funds required for the treatment of TB patients is 3.5 billion dollars. In 2022, this amount will be doubled.
One of the most serious problems today is that more and more people exhibit symptoms of drug-resistant TB, which is resistant to treatment with rifampicin, considered the most effective first-line drug. This danger is especially great in post-Soviet countries. In Russia, for example, in 2016 the share of new cases of infection with multi-drug resistance was 27 percent, and among repeat cases – 65 percent.
The who report notes that 1.3 billion people living in the world today can be ill with tuberculosis during life.
“States shall adopt the measures necessary to eliminate tuberculosis by 2030. Governments do not allocate sufficient funds to fight it. It is unacceptable that millions of people suffer from diseases that can be prevented and cured, and die from them,” – said the head of the who Department for tuberculosis Teresa Kasaeva.
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