According to the latest report by an international organisation the Stop TB Partnership, during the coronavirus pandemic TB funding was slashed by more than half.
This means that at least 1.2-million people either weren't diagnosed with, or treated for, TB. With four months still left this year, the number is expected to rise further.
In the report experts refer to TB as an “orphan disease” due to the lack of political will and chronically low budgets for fighting it. “Years of chronic neglect have led to an unbearable situation in which TB kills more than 4,000 people a day, more than HIV and malaria combined. Yet too few decisionmakers, donors and stakeholders care about TB. It is not that we will see future consequences ...we are in the middle of the disaster, and our attention seems to be in the very wrong place.
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