1,4 million will die: the number of tuberculosis diseases will increase due to coronavirus

Studies show that due to the fact that all attention is focused on coronavirus, undiagnosed and untreated cases of tuberculosis will lead to the death of 1,4 million people. Writes about this The Guardian.

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The head of the global partnership for tuberculosis (TB) said that according to studies, millions of people are expected to become infected with tuberculosis as a result of restrictions due to Covid-19.

It is predicted that an additional 2025 million people will be infected with tuberculosis before 6,3, and an additional 1,4 million people are expected to die because cases are not diagnosed and many patients are not treated during quarantine due to coronavirus. This will set aside global tuberculosis efforts for five to eight years.

“The fact that we're back to where we were in 2013 and we have so many people dying, it's frustrating,” said Lusika Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership. “I am outraged that we are simply unable to control what we do, forgetting about existing programs, we are losing so much, people are dying.”

There is currently no adult tuberculosis vaccine, only one for children.

“TB has been around for thousands of years,” Ditiu said. “We've had a vaccine for 100 years, and we have two or three potential vaccines in the pipeline. We need about half a billion people to get a vaccine by 2027, but unfortunately nothing has been done for about 180 days.”

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Researchers are trying to develop a vaccine against Covid-19. It is now on the agenda of all, but we must not forget about other diseases. “We don’t have a vaccine for tuberculosis, we don’t have a vaccine for HIV, we don’t have a vaccine for malaria, and of all this, tuberculosis is the oldest. So why such a reaction to coronavirus? ”

The study was commissioned by the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership in collaboration with Imperial College London, Avenir Health, and Johns Hopkins University. The results were modeled on the basis of data from quick estimates of the spread of coronavirus in countries with one of the highest incidence rates for tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis kills 1,5 million people a year, more than any other infectious disease.

In the past few years, there has been a steady decline in the number of cases of the disease as a result of the expansion of services for treating the disease and preventing its spread.

Five years ago, world leaders pledged to end the tuberculosis epidemic by 2030. At a meeting in 2018, they promised to expand the response, including doubling funding by 2022.

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