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Tuberculosis Today Bio-Insight Vlo.2
WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY
1.020.000
total annual cases in Indonesia
Resource: who.int
About World Tuberculosis Day Each
year,
people
commemorate
Indonesia is 2nd country with
World
highest TB cases in the world
Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease.
TB remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. Each day, nearly 4000 lose their lives to TB and close to 28,000 people fall ill with this preventable and curable disease. Global efforts to combat TB have saved an estimated 63 million lives since the year 2000.
The theme of World TB Day 2021 - ‘The Clock is Ticking’ –conveys the sense that the world is running out of time to act on the commitments to end TB made by global leaders. This is especially critical in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has put End TB progress at risk, and to ensure equitable access to prevention and care in line with
WHO’s
drive
towards
achieving
Universal
Health Coverage.
Resource: www.cdc.gov
Pharmaceuticals for Tuberculosis The
most
common
antibiotic
used
to
treat
tuberculosis include:
Bio-engineering Invention Fighting Tuberculosis
Isoniazid
Scott
Rifampin (Rifadin, Rimactane)
Engineering develops research focuses on the
Ethambutol (Myambutol)
development of biotherapeutics that target and
Pyrazinamide
kill drug-resistant bacterial infections. He and his
Medina
from
Penn
State
College
of
team recently developed a peptide that is able to
What's the problem? Antimicrobial
resistance
is
a
target a specific pathogen in the human body
global
problem.
According to a World Health Organization 2019 report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, annually a minimum of 700,000 deaths
without
destroying
development
will
help
good
bacteria.
eliminate
bacteria
This that
cause serious and even fatal infections, such as tuberculosis.
are due to drug-resistant diseases worldwide, with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis responsible for 230,000 deaths.
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