Today is World TB Day, and this year's theme is "Investing in Ending TB, Saving Lives".
TB remains one of the deadliest infectious disease killers in the world. Globally, nearly 28 000 people are infected with TB every day, and more than 4,100 people die from TB.
Global efforts to combat TB have saved some 66 million lives since 2000. However, the outbreak has set back years of progress in ending TB.
We urgently need to invest resources and increase the fight against tuberculosis! We call on global leaders to live up to their commitment to end TB.
Over the past 30 years, China's TB incidence and mortality rates have decreased significantly, but China is still ranked among the 30 countries with a high burden of TB in the world, and TB is still one of The public health problems in China.
Improving the coverage and quality of latent tuberculosis infections and patient diagnosis, treatment and care services, and reducing out-of-pocket expenditures for patients, are critical to tb control efforts.
We need to increase investment in active screening, preventive treatment, and drug-resistant TB treatment to accelerate the end of the TB epidemic and save lives.
