TB Facts & Figures
- HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria kill 6 million people every year; nearly 2 million deaths are caused by TB.
- TB is curable but kills 5000 people every day.
- TB is a disease of poverty; virtually all TB deaths are in the developing world, affecting mostly young adults in their most productive years.
- TB especially affects the most vulnerable such as the poorest and malnourished.
- TB is a leading killer among HIV-infected people with weakened immune systems; a quarter of a million TB deaths are HIV-associated, most of them being in Africa.
- Global TB incidence is still growing at 1% a year because of the rapid increase in Africa; intense control efforts are helping incidence fall or stabilize in other regions.
- 2 billion people, equal to one-third of the world’s total population, are infected with TB bacilli, the microbes that cause TB.
GDF Facts and Figures
- Months of existence: 60
- Patient treatments supplied: 4.6 million (grants), 2.7 million (DP)
- Average cost to treat a patient with TB: US$ 14 - 18
- Total raised and committed for GDF to date: US$ 95 million
- Dollars needed to treat untreated patients: US$ 12.5 million
- Direct Procurement Service business generated to date: US$ 25.7 million
- Applications (new and repeat) approved for support: 159
- Total number of countries that have received drugs: 71
- Technical assistance visits organized by the GDF (pre-delivery, monitoring and DP missions): 172
Last updated: March 2006
Please contact gdf@who.int for up to date facts and figures.
For further information on the GDF check out these online brochures:
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