Tuberculosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
2023年11月7日 · Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that most often affects the lungs and is caused by a type of bacteria. It spreads through the air when infected people cough, sneeze or spit. Tuberculosis is preventable and curable. About a quarter of the global population is estimated to have been infected with TB bacteria.
Tuberculosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年9月24日 · Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s top infectious killer. Nearly 4500 people lose their lives and 30 000 people fall ill with TB each day. TB is contagious and airborne. It is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. TB is spread from person to person through the air. When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, they propel …
Tuberculosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
2018年1月18日 · Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. Tuberculosis is curable and preventable. TB is spread from person to person through the air. When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, they propel the TB germs into the air. A person needs to inhale only a few of these germs to become ...
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 3: …
2022年9月30日 · The “WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 3: Diagnosis – Tests for tuberculosis infection” is a new consolidated policy guideline on tests for TB infection. The policy includes, for the first-time recommendations on a new class of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen-based skin tests (TBSTs) and consolidates all currently ...
WHO announces updates to its guidelines on tests for the …
2022年9月30日 · WHO has released updated consolidated guidelines and a new operational handbook on tests for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) infection today. The updated policy includes, for the first-time recommendations on a new class of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen-based skin tests (TBSTs) and consolidates all currently existing recommendations for …
Preventive treatment for tuberculosis infection
2020年4月3日 · New, shorter treatment options mean that people can be protected from TB for many years with treatment lasting only 1 or 3 months versus more than 6 months in the past. WHO Team. Global Tuberculosis Programme (GTB) Number of pages. 1. TB preventive treatment can stop infection from turning into active disease.
Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 - World Health Organization (WHO)
2022年10月27日 · Overview. The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, at global, regional and country levels. This is done in the context of global TB commitments, strategies and targets.
4. TB prevention - World Health Organization (WHO)
4. TB prevention. Preventing tuberculosis (TB) infection and stopping progression from infection to disease are critical to reduce TB incidence to the levels envisaged by the End TB Strategy. The main health care interventions to achieve this reduction are TB preventive treatment, which the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends for people ...
Global Tuberculosis Programme - World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme works towards the goal of a world free of TB, with zero deaths, disease and suffering due to the disease. The team’s mission is to lead and guide the global effort to end the TB epidemic through universal access to people-centred prevention and care, multisectoral action and innovation. About us.
Preventing TB - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tuberculosis (TB) infection is extremely common: an estimated one-quarter of the world’s population is infected. People with TB infection risk developing TB disease and this risk depends on multiple factors, the most important being the state of their immune system.TB preventive treatment stops TB infection from progressing to disease in those who are infected and can …