Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s biggest global health crises. Killing 1.5 million people in 2020, TB is the world’s second deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19 (WHO).

Obsolete treatments, the lack of an effective vaccine, and the lack of suitable diagnostic tools make it difficult to control the global TB epidemic.

Some gains have been made in recent years; the first new TB drugs in half a century and the trial of a shorter course of treatment for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). But the harsh reality remains - 10 million people fell sick with TB in 2020 and nearly half a million developed DR-TB, which is much harder to treat. Only about one-third of people with DR-TB accessed treatment in 2020. The majority go undiagnosed and therefore untreated.

IN 2021

Quick facts about Tuberculosis

 
Stop TB posters outside Luyanda Site in Eshowe,  Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
Tuberculosis

Everybody Breathes: Fighting TB in Eshowe

Documentary 19 Nov 2020
 
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, Step up for TB report 2020, South Africa
Tuberculosis

MSF calls on governments and donors to step up and speed up TB testing and treatment

Press Release 16 Nov 2020
 
Somaliland community educating and counselling for TB patients
Tuberculosis

Adapting education and counselling for TB patients in Somaliland on the eve of COVID-19

Latest News 18 Sep 2020
 
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

In South Africa, MSF draws on HIV experience to teach compassion for COVID-19

Latest News 20 Aug 2020
 
Tuberculosis

MSF welcomes WHO revision in TB guidelines and urges greater access and affordability in India to new regimen

Press Release 13 Aug 2020
 
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Lessons learnt from patients in Johannesburg shelters

Fieldworkers Stories 6 Aug 2020