tb quick facts
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Tuberculosis quick facts
Illustrated through drawings from children across the Region
Philippines
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Papua New Guinea
Did you know that…
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TB spreads through the air, but only people who are sick with TB in their lungs (pulmonary TB) are infectious.
Mongolia
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One-third of the world's population is currently infected with TB germs (bacilli)..
…but only 5-10% of people infected will become sick with the disease.
Mongolia
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The immune system "walls off" TB bacilli which, protected by a thick waxy coat, can lie dormant in the body for years.
Philippines
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People with HIV/AIDS are much more likely to develop TB after infection due to their weakened immune systems. TB is a leading cause of death among people who are HIV-positive.
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Left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year.
Mongolia
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• 95% of TB deaths are in the developing world.
• The largest number of new TB cases in 2010 occurred in Asia, which accounted for 59% of new cases globally.
• 4 of the 22 TB high-burden countries are in the Western Pacific Region (Cambodia, China, Philippines, Viet Nam).
• An estimated 1.4 million people died from TB in 2010, including 320,000 deaths among women and 350,000 people with HIV. This is equal to 3,800 deaths a day.Philippines
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• Until 70 years ago, there were no medicines to cure TB. No new anti-TB drugs have been developed in nearly 50 years.
• Drug-resistant TB is man-made, caused when patients do not take all their medicines regularly.
• Drugs to treat resistant TB are more expensive than standard TB drugs and can cause more severe side-effects (though these are manageable).
• Strains that are resistant to at least one drug have been documented in every country surveyed. Philippines
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• The absolute number of new TB cases has been falling slowly since 2006 (from 9.4 million in 2009 to 8.8 million in 2010).
• 46% of HIV-positive TB patients were enrolled on antiretrovirals and 77% started on co-trimoxazole preventive treatment in 2010. Philippines
Fiji
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Since 1995, 46 million people have been successfully treated and up to 6.8 million lives saved through DOTS and the Stop TB Strategy.
Mongolia
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Viet Nam
Research and development:
There are “point-of-care” tests in the pipeline, 10 TB drugs in trials, and 10 vaccine candidates for the prevention of TB in Phase I or Phase
II trials. A new, revolutionary diagnostic tool (Xpert MTB/RIF) has been developed and is being used in 47 countries.
Viet Nam Viet Nam
Lao PDR
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The world as a whole is on track toachieving the MDG target of reversing the incidence of TB.
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Cambodia
Hand-in-hand we can fight for a World Free of TB.