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World TB Day 2023: The theme of World Tuberculosis Day 2023, ‘Yes! We Can End TB!,‘ aims to inspire hope and encourage high-level leadership, increased investments, faster adoption of new WHO recommendations, adoption of innovations, accelerated action, and multisectoral collaboration to combat the TB epidemic. This year is critical, with opportunities to increase visibility and political commitment at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis in 2023. The focus of World Tuberculosis Day will be on urging countries to accelerate progress in the run-up to the UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis in 2023. WHO will also issue a call to action with partners, urging Member States to speed up the implementation of the new WHO-recommended shorter all-oral treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Every year on March 24, the world commemorates World Tuberculosis Day to raise awareness about TB and efforts to end the global epidemic, marking the day in 1882 when the bacterium causing TB was discovered.
About World TB Day – Background
Tuberculosis is still one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. Every day, approximately 4400 people die as a result of tuberculosis, and approximately 30,000 people become ill with this preventable and curable disease. Since the year 2000, global efforts to combat tuberculosis have saved an estimated 74 million lives. However, the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with conflicts in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as socioeconomic inequities, has reversed years of progress in the fight to end tuberculosis and placed an even heavier burden on those affected, particularly the most vulnerable. WHO noted in its most recent Global Tuberculosis Report that estimated TB incidence and deaths have increased for the first time in more than a decade.
World Tuberculosis Day: How TB is spreading
TB spread through the air from one person to another.
World Tuberculosis Day: Symptoms
- Cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer
- Pain in the chest
- Coughing up blood or sputum
- Weakness or fatigue
- Weight loss
- Appetite loss
- chills
- fever
- Sweating at night
