{"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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paho.org\/en\/topics\/tuberculosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, <strong>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: <strong>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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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), <strong>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%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite being a 100% curable disease, <strong>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.paho.org\/handle\/10665.2\/57524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">American Health Organization&#8217;s call <\/a>\u00a0for governments to take action and opt for <strong>more modern treatments of shorter duration<\/strong>, which raise people&#8217;s cure rates.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wecanendtb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">WeCanEndTB.org<\/a> and learn more about the actions that individuals, civil society and governments can take to <strong>END TB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the world&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the achievements of the response to tuberculosis around the world, TB, a 100% curable disease, continues to claim thousands of lives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahflatamycaribe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}