Treatment of TB is recovering after covid-19 but well short of 2025 targets, says WHO

Access to the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) is rebounding following serious setbacks during the pandemic, but progress is still far short of meeting the World Health Organization’s 2025 targets.The number of people newly diagnosed with TB reached 7.5 million globally in 2022—the highest since monitoring began in 1995 and above the pre-covid baseline of 7.1 million in 2019, according to WHO’s 2023 Global Tuberculosis Report.1The number of reported cases dropped to 5.8 million in 2020 and 6.4 million in 2021 as the collapse of health systems caused by covid-19 prevented many with the disease from receiving a diagnosis or treatment.The rebound in the number of diagnoses shows the world is working through the backlog of people who have developed TB without receiving treatment in recent years and is a cause for optimism, said the panel of health experts presenting the findings.Global TB deaths also fell from an estimated…
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