{"id":85343,"date":"2019-11-01T06:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=85343"},"modified":"2019-11-01T06:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T06:39:14","slug":"global-tuberculosis-report-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/global-tuberculosis-report-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Tuberculosis Report 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following statement is\/are correct in reference to the Global Tuberculosis Report 2019 published by WHO recently?<br> (1) The report was released by World Health Organisation (WHO) on October 17 2019.<br> (2) The TB incident rates in India have been decreased by 50,000 patients in 2018.<br> (3) WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997.<br> (4) Most TB cases diagnosed in 2018 were in the WHO regions of South-East Asia.<br> Correct options are:<br> (a) 1, 2 and 3<br> (b) 1, 3 and 4<br> (c) 1, 3 and 4<br> (d) All of the above.<br> Answer: (d)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released its Global Tuberculosis Report 2019 on October 17 2019.<\/li><li> WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997 to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2019 report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The data are collected by 202 countries and territories that account for more than 99% of the world\u2019s population and estimated number of TB cases.<\/li><li>SDG Target 3.3 includes ending the TB epidemic by 2030.<\/li><li>Globally, an estimated 10.0 million (range, 9.0\u201311.1 million) people fell ill with TB in 2018.<\/li><li>The burden of disease varies enormously among countries, from fewer than five to more than 500 new cases per 100 000 population per year, with the global average being around 130.<\/li><li>There were an estimated 1.2million (range, 1.1\u20131.3 million) TB deaths among HIV-negative people in 2018 (a 27% reduction from 1.7 million in 2000), and an additional 251 000 deaths (range, 223 000\u2013281 000) among HIV-positive people (a 60% reduction from 620 000 in 2000).<\/li><li>TB affects people of both sexes in all age groups but the highest burden is in men (aged \u226515 years), who accounted for 57% of all TB cases in 2018. By comparison, women accounted for 32% of cases. <\/li><li>Geographically, most TB cases in 2018 were in the WHO regions of South-East Asia (44%), Africa (24%) and the Western Pacific (18%), with smaller percentages in the Eastern Mediterranean (8%), the Americas (3%) and Europe (3%). <\/li><li>Eight countries accounted for two thirds of the global total: India (27%), China (9%), Indonesia (8%), the Philippines (6%), Pakistan (6%), Nigeria (4%), Bangladesh (4%) and South Africa (3%). These and 22 other countries in WHO\u2019s list of 30 high TB burden countries accounted for 87% of the world\u2019s cases.<\/li><li>It was reported that most WHO regions and many high TB burden countries are not on track to reach the 2020 milestones of the End TB Strategy.<\/li><li>Globally, the average rate of decline in the TB incidence rate was 1.6% per year in the period 2000\u22122018, and 2.0% between 2017 and 2018.<\/li><li>Globally, 7.0 million new cases of TB were notified in 2018; an increase from 6.4 million in 2017 and a large increase from the 5.7\u20135.8 million notified annually in the period 2009\u20132012.<\/li><li>In India, notifications of new cases rose from 1.2 million to 2.0 million between 2013 and 2018 (+60%).<\/li><li>Ten countries accounted for about 80% of the gap, with India (25%), Nigeria (12%), Indonesia (10%) and the Philippines (8%) accounting for more than half of the total.<\/li><li>In 2019, the 119 low- and middle-income countries, which accounts for 97 per cent of reported TB cases, received a global funding of $6.8 billion. In 2018, it was $6.4 billion in 2018 and $3.5 billion in 2006.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/tb\/publications\/global_report\/tb19_Exec_Sum_15October2019.pdf?ua=1 \">https:\/\/www.who.int\/tb\/publications\/global_report\/tb19_Exec_Sum_15October2019.pdf?ua=1 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/tb\/publications\/global_report\/tb19_Report_regional_global_15October2019.pdf?ua=1\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/tb\/publications\/global_report\/tb19_Report_regional_global_15October2019.pdf?ua=1<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/tb\/publications\/global_report\/en\/\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/tb\/publications\/global_report\/en\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/health\/world-not-on-track-to-achieve-tb-targets-for-2020-who-67311\">https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/health\/world-not-on-track-to-achieve-tb-targets-for-2020-who-67311<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following statement is\/are correct in reference to the Global Tuberculosis Report 2019 published by WHO recently? (1) The report was released by World Health Organisation (WHO) on October 17 2019. (2) The TB incident rates in India have been decreased by 50,000 patients in 2018. 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