Yes! We Can End TB

We Can End TBWorld Tuberculosis Day is observed on 24 March every year to raise awareness about tuberculosis and efforts to end the ongoing epidemic.On the 100th anniversary of Dr Robert Koch's announcement, in 1982, the first official World Tuberculosis Day was observed.World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, 24 March 2024, continues with the theme "Yes!We Can End TB".TB is still one of the world's deadliest diseases and recent years have seen a worrying increase in drug-resistant TB.• Each day, close to 3,560 people lose their lives to TB and close to 30,000 people fall ill with this preventable and curable disease.• Global efforts to combat TB have saved an estimated 75 million lives since the year 2000.There was a significant worldwide recovery in the scale-up of TB diagnosis and treatment services in 2022.• In its latest Global Tuberculosis Report, World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted that more than 7.5 million people with TB received access to diagnosis and treatment in 2022, the most since monitoring began almost 30 years ago.• However, progress was insufficient to meet the global TB targets set in 2018 with disruptions caused by the pandemic and ongoing conflicts being major contributing factors.