Mar 29 2024The World Health Organization Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, which is marked on 24 March, WHO has released an investment case for TB screening and preventive treatment. A modeling study developed with Governments of four countries - Brazil, Georgia, Kenya and South Africa - highlights the impact to be achieved from expanding TB screening and preventive treatment.
The investment case outlines the health and economic rationale for investing in evidence-based, WHO-recommended interventions on TB screening and prevention that can contribute to advancing universal health coverage. Today, we have the knowledge, tools and political commitment that can end this millennia-old disease that remains one of the world's top infectious killers".
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