About 2 billion people carry dormant tuberculosis (TB), leading to 10 million new infections and a million deaths yearly. Control efforts have declined due to COVID-19, threatening the World Health Organization's goal to reduce TB cases by 80% by 2030. Wealthy countries like the UK and USA are seeing rising TB cases, highlighting that TB is not confined to lower-income nations. Critical barriers to elimination include the high cost of effective TB tests, complicating diagnosis and treatment efforts even further.
"The price of effective TB tests remains too high," said Jasmin Behrends, an advocacy officer at Doctors Without Borders.
Despite effective treatments available since the 1950s, tuberculosis still infects around 10 million people and kills over a million annually.
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