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Tuberculosis facts at a glance
More people are dying of TB now than ever before
Around 5,000 people die from tuberculosis (TB) every day although it is curable
If TB is left unchecked in the next 20 years, almost one billion people will become newly infected, 200 million will develop the disease, and 35 million will die of it
After HIV, TB is the greatest infectious killer of young people and adults in the world today
TB causes at least 11 per cent of the total number of deaths in people living with HIV
750,000 people living with HIV develop TB each year
TB can be successfully treated even if someone is HIV-positive
14 million adults are infected with both TB and HIV – 70 per cent of whom live in Africa
In some regions of Africa, up to 80 per cent of adult TB patients are HIV-infected
In eastern and southern Africa, where combined TB and HIV prevalence rates peak globally, less than half of TB patients access effective TB services
In Africa the number of TB cases rose dramatically by 5 per cent from 2003-2004
In some African countries late diagnosis of TB and untreated HIV result in one-third of HIV-positive patients dying within weeks of being treated for TB
Out of 9 million new TB cases worldwide each year, 4.5 million are in six Asian countries – Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines