# 5049
For the fifteenth year running the World Health Organization has released their annual report on the global control of Tuberculosis (TB). This year, this report has more data than ever before, including detailed TB profiles of 212 countries and territories.
If you are looking for a quick overview, or a handout to print, you can download this 2-page PDF summary.
Launch of the WHO Global Tuberculosis Control Report 2010
(EXCERPTS)
Among the successes highlighted in the report are:
- TB mortality - there has been a 35% drop in the TB death rate since 1990 - from a rate of 30 in 1990 to 20 per 100 000 population in 2009.
- TB Incidence - Rate per capita per 100 000 of people sick with TB continues declining slowly.
- 2015 global Targets - The world is on track to reach Millennium Development Goal for TB incidence, and the Stop TB Partnership 2015 target for mortality.
- Quality of care - there has been major progress in improving access to diagnosis and treatment, and also in the scale up of TB/HIV intervention, laboratory strengthening
Major challenges still exist:
- Deaths - 1.7 million died in 2009 from what is a curable disease.
- Incidence - though falling, it is falling too slowly. Under the current rate of decline, TB will not be eliminated in our lifetime.
- MDR-TB response - the response is still insufficient and more efforts are needed to scale up and strengthen programmes, especially with 440 000 new cases emerging each year, and that less than 5% of those cases being properly treated.
This is a major release of information, so you’ll want to visit the WHO TB site to peruse and download these PDF and/or data files.
TB data
Global tuberculosis control 2010
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Tuberculosis profiles
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WHO's global TB database
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