Global TB Report 2023

According to the Global TB Report 2023, India accounts for 27% of the total TB cases in the world.

It is annual report by World Health Organisation (WHO) since 1997.
Global Tuberculosis Report 2023 – It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of
- TB epidemic
- Progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment
- At global, regional and country levels.
Data source – Data from national ministries of health.
Coverage – 192 countries and areas (out of 215) with more than 99% of the world’s population and TB cases reported data.
Report Findings – TB remains the world’s second leading cause of death from a single infectious agent.
The net reduction from 2015 to 2022 was 8.7%, far from the WHO End TB Strategy milestone of a 50% reduction by 2025.
COVID-related disruptions have resulted in almost half a million excess deaths from TB in the three years 2020–2022.
The treatment success rates improved to 88% for people treated for drug-susceptible TB and 63% for people with MDR/RR-TB.

Findings of report for India

Infected population – Nearly 28.2 lakh people got TB in India in 2022, meaning 1 person gets TB every 11 seconds in India.
India’s contribution to the global burden – It is at 27%, which is 1% down from the previous year’s 28%.
Reporting of TB cases – It increased crossing even the pre-pandemic high with 24.2 lakh cases in 2022.
Treatment coverage - It increased to 80% and India was among only 4 countries among the 30 high-burden countries to achieve this.
TB Mortality - A reduction in India’s contribution towards global mortality from 36% in the previous years to 26% in 2022.
India was the only country to have completed a National TB prevalence survey since 2019.
Currently, 199 new TB cases per lakh population is observed in India.

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