Each year the global community commemorates World TB Day on 24 March. On this day, 140 years ago, Robert Koch discovered the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. Amazingly, the Bacillus Calmette Guerin vaccine, still used routinely, was first injected into a human in 1921 — 101 years ago. TB is an old disease — it was discovered inDespite being an ancient disease, there’s been inadequate investment in vaccine technology compared to Covid-19 which was first identified in December 2019.
South Africa has historically had a large TB burden estimated at 328,000 in 2020 and currently contributing 3.3% of the global burden. Since 2010, there have been close to 1 million TB deaths in South Africa.
The country largely funds its TB programme from domestic resources and is not reliant on donors. This is in line with the other BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China — which cumulatively contribute 65% of the global domestic funding for TB.that was conducted in 2018 and reported in 2021, the overall TB prevalence is 737/100,000 with 675/100,000 in females and 1,094/100,000 in males, with the highest prevalence of 1,107/100,000 for those aged 35-44 years.
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