The World Health Organization (WHO) defended this Monday greater investment in the fight against tuberculosis, especially in testing and prevention programs, since it could benefit not only the health but also the economy, on the eve of the international day against this disease.
The UN health agency released a report, carried out with the collaboration of the governments of Brazil, Georgia, Kenya and South Africa, which defends that for every dollar invested in these prevention programs, 39 can be saved.
In the week in which World Tuberculosis Day is celebrated (March 24), the WHO recalls that efforts to prevent its incidence have saved 75 million lives so far this century, although this remains one of the the deadliest infectious diseases globally.
“We have the knowledge, the tools and the political commitment to end a disease that is millennia old,” the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stressed in this regard.
WHO is particularly concerned about the incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), with 410,000 new cases recorded in 2022, of which only one 40% they received treatment.
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Source: Gestion
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