1. Presenter: Dr Himalaya Singh
Post Graduate 2nd year
Department of Community Medicine
Guide: Dr (Prof.) H S Joshi
Head of Department
2. Contents
• Introduction
• Burden
• Progress
• Challenges
• Developmental milestones of strategy
• Vision and Goal
• Pillars and Principles
• Reaching the targets
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3. • TB is a top killer worldwide, ranking alongside
HIV/AIDS
• TB places its heaviest burden on the world’s most
poor and vulnerable, aggravating existing inequalities
• Due to TB, people face costs or suffer income loss
equivalent on average to more than 50% of their
income
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4. • The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030
were adopted by the United Nations in 2015
• One of the targets is to end the global TB epidemic
• The WHO End TB Strategy, approved by the World
Health Assembly in 2014, calls for a 90% reduction
in TB deaths and an 80% reduction in the TB
incidence rate by 2030, compared with 2015.
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5. Global TB situation
In 2015, estimated incident
• 10.4 million TB cases worldwide
• 5.9 million (56%) were among men
• 3.5 million (34%) among women
• 1.0 million (10%) among children
People living with HIV accounted for 1.2 million
(11%) of all new TB cases
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28. References
• Global tuberculosis report 2016
• Global tuberculosis report 2015
• Documentation for World Health Assembly 67. Geneva, World Health
Organization, 2014. Available at http://apps. who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA67/A67_11-en.pdf
• WHO-The Essentials : Implementation of End TB strategy
• The Paradigm shift – global plan
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