{"id":5148,"date":"2023-11-07T18:15:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2023-11-07T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:15:06","slug":"ending-tb-is-within-reach-so-why-are-millions-still-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/07\/ending-tb-is-within-reach-so-why-are-millions-still-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending TB Is Within Reach \u2014 So Why Are Millions Still Dying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/06\/health\/tuberculosis-tb-treatment-vaccine-diagnosis.html\">New York Times<\/a> Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, despite new medicines and better diagnostic tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Kaneshie Polyclinic, a health center in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Accra, the capital of Ghana, there is a rule. Every patient who walks through the door \u2014 a woman in labor, a construction worker with an injury, a child with malaria \u2014 is screened for tuberculosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This policy, a national one, is meant to address a tragic problem; two-thirds of the people in this country with tuberculosis don\u2019t know they have it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuberculosis, which is preventable and curable, has reclaimed the title of the world\u2019s leading infectious disease killer, after being supplanted from its long reign by Covid-19. But worldwide, 40 percent of people who are living with TB are untreated and undiagnosed, according to the World Health Organization.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/373828\/9789240083851-eng.pdf?sequence=1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The disease killed 1.36 million people in 2022, according to a new W.H.O. report released on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers are all the more troubling because this is a moment of great hope in the fight against TB: Significant innovations in diagnosing and treating it have started to reach developing countries, and clinical trial results show promise for a new vaccine. Infectious disease experts who have battled TB for decades express a new conviction that, with enough money and a commitment to bring those tools to neglected communities, TB could be nearly vanquished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/06\/health\/tuberculosis-tb-treatment-vaccine-diagnosis.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"fTrFY Um RPIlivDiUYERdzrtG Qq\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, despite new medicines and better diagnostic tools. At Kaneshie Polyclinic, a health center in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Accra, the capital of Ghana, there is a rule. Every patient who walks through the door \u2014 a woman in labor, a construction worker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}