Active TB Rates

What Is TB?

As of March 2009, more than 9 million people develop active TB each year and 1.7 million die from the disease.

But, by 2008, programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria had detected and treated 4.6 million active cases of TB.

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Where in the world are the majority of TB cases? (Answer on next slide.)

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