World TB Day 24 March 2022The Communicable Disease Center observed World TB Day on 24 March 2022, as part of World Health Organization (WHO) global health awareness events, with a series of educational activities to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic.
The theme of World TB Day this year is ‘Invest to End TB. Save Lives.’ – conveys the urgent need to invest resources and commitment to increase efforts in the fight to end TB. Tuberculosis remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious disease killers. According to WHO, each day over 4100 people lose their lives to TB and close to 30,000 people fall ill with this preventable and treatable disease. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of progress made in the fight to end TB. For the first time in over a decade, TB deaths increased in 2020.
Awareness posters and videos were shared throughout the community, displayed on the digital screens at shopping malls.
