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world tuberculosis day
Tuberculosis is a contagious infectious disease caused by bacteria and affecting the lungs.
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By: Igor Strauss
1 min
On the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day (held on March 24), we take stock of this contagious infectious disease caused by bacteria.
Tuberculosis remains the deadliest infectious disease for people living with HIV.
Every day, more than 4,000 people succumb to it and almost 30,000 others contract this disease.
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According to WHO estimates, global tuberculosis control has saved 58 million lives since 2000. A total of 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis in 2020. More than 95% of TB deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.
How to better fight against tuberculosis?
What are the advances in treatment and screening?
Dr Etienne Leroy-Terquem
, pulmonologist and medical oncologist at the
hospital of Mantes-la-Jolie
, Vice-president of the
NGO international pneumological support
.
Has carried out numerous missions focusing on respiratory diseases (and in particular tuberculosis) in Asia and Africa
Prof. Gisèle Badoum,
Deputy Head of Department of Pneumology at
the Yalgado Ouédraogo University Hospital in Ouagadougou
, Burkina Faso, Head of the Unit for Highly Contagious Diseases within the Pneumology Department.
Héléna Huerga
, head of tuberculosis research projects at
Epicenter
, an association specializing in epidemiology created by
MSF.
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