Tuberculosis, A Curable Disease

Tuberculosis and MDR-TB from Partners in Health (pih)
A curable disease that kills millions in the developing world...

• TB kills 5,000 people every day, nearly 2 million people per year.
• More than 2 billion people, almost one-third of the world’s population, are infected with the microbes that cause TB.

TB and HIV/AIDS Read in this section how the HIV/AIDs epidemic is causing a surge in TB deaths.
Drug-resistant TB A crisis that is creating it hard for health workers to get this under control, read more about it by clicking the link below.

MDR-TB can be treated and cured. Read how Multi Drug Resistant TB can happen at Partners in Health... http://www.pih.org/issues/tb.html .