{"id":2305,"date":"2024-03-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T17:57:41","slug":"yes-we-can-end-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/yes-we-can-end-tb\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, we can end TB and AIDS."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MEXICO CITY, March 22, 2024.- <\/strong>Despite the achievements of the response to tuberculosis around the world, TB, a 100% curable disease, continues to claim thousands of lives. According to the World Health Organization<\/a>, 1.3 million people died from TB in 2022, including 167,000 people living with HIV.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, 11 million people worldwide fall ill with tuberculosis, of which 4% are multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), that is, it cannot be cured with drugs usually used such as Rifampicin, which represents a public health crisis and a threat to global health security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, the TB incidence rate in the Region of the Americas was 31 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a growth of 13%<\/strong> compared to the 2015 baseline of 27.5 cases. According to WHO estimates, TB deaths also increased by 40% in the same period: in 2022, about 35,000 people died, equivalent to 3.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, of which 11,200 (31%) were people living with HIV.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progress has been limited and unsustained in the Region of the Americas. Although the percentage of cases diagnosed by WHO-recommended rapid tests increased from 13% to 40% (from 2015 to 2022), anti-TB treatment coverage decreased from 81% to 74%.<\/strong> In addition, the overall treatment success rate fell from 76% to 72%. And the overall TB case fatality rate in the region increased from 7% of cases to 9%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being a 100% curable disease, one of the main barriers to TB eradication is the duration of treatments with traditional drugs<\/strong>, such as Rifampicin and Isoniazid, which can take up to 9 months to complete, and, in the case of multidrug-resistant TB, can include daily painful injections and healing periods of up to 2 years.\u00a0 AIDS Healthcare Foundation joins the Pan American Health Organization’s call <\/a>\u00a0for governments to take action and opt for more modern treatments of shorter duration<\/strong>, which raise people’s cure rates.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit WeCanEndTB.org<\/a> and learn more about the actions that individuals, civil society and governments can take to END TB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the world’s largest AIDS organization, currently providing medical care and\/or services to more than 1.9 million people in 45 countries including the United States and the Africa, Latin America\/Caribbean, Asia\/Pacific region and Eastern Europe regions. Learn more about AHF in https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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