WHO South-East Asia Region: Reach the 1 million “missing” TB cases

Annual TB Report 2014: Tuberculosis control in the South-East Asia Region

Of the approximately 3 million people who get sick with TB every year in the WHO South-East Asia Region, a third do not get the TB services. On World TB Day, WHO is urging countries to find, treat and cure the “missing” 1 million who do not get TB services, in order to accelerate progress towards zero TB deaths, infections, suffering and stigma.

Read more here.

Read the World TB Day press release here.

Download Annual TB Report 2014: Tuberculosis control in the South-East Asia Region from here.


Source: WHO South-East Asia Region

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By World Health Organization

Published: March 22, 2014, 5:21 p.m.

Last updated: March 23, 2014, 2:27 a.m.

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