15.04.2022
Tuberculosis Deaths On The Rise Again , 1.5 Million People Died From TB In 2020
Deaths from tuberculosis (TB) have risen again for the first time in more than a decade as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts access to health services, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. In the 2021 Global TB report, the WHO estimated that about 4.1 million people have TB but are undiagnosed or not officially declared to health authorities, a sharp increase from 2.9 million in 2019. An estimated 1.5 million people died from TB in 2020, including 214,000 people who also have HIV. Tuberculosis is a communicable disease that is a major cause of ill health and one of the leading causes of death worldwide, the report said. Until COVID-19, TB was “the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, ranking above HIV/AIDS.” It is caused by the bacillus mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is spread when people expel bacteria into the air (e.g. by coughing). The disease typically affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can affect other sites. Most people (about 90 per cent) who develop the disease are adults, with more cases among men than women. Credit: WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Poverty deprives people of adequate education, health care and of life's most basic necessities- safe living conditions (including clean air and clean drinking water) and an adequate food supply. The developed (industrialized) countries today account for roughly 20 percent of the world's population but control about 80 percent of the world's wealth.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
