Each year, there are 2 million TB-related deaths worldwide.
A disproportionate number of people who become sick with TB are the most
vulnerable in any society: children, the elderly, the poor, the homeless, racial/ethnic
minorities, and people infected with HIV.
TB is the leading killer of people who are HIV-infected, accounting for
one third of AIDS deaths worldwide.
In most of the developing world, TB is the most common single
opportunistic infection (OI) for people living with HIV/AIDS.
TB causes more deaths among women worldwide than all causes of maternal
mortality combined
Someone in the world is newly infected with TB every second.
Nearly one percent of the world's population is newly infected with TB
each year.
Overall, one third of the world's population is infected with the TB
bacillus.
Each year, 8 million people around the world become sick with TB.
Every day 20,000 people develop TB disease and 5,000 die from it
TB accounts for more than one quarter of all preventable adult deaths in
developing countries.
One person dies of TB every ten seconds.
