As the world marks the World Tuberculosis Day today, the disease has remained the leading infectious killer disease in the world and among the top 10 causes of death worldwide.• $13b Needed Yearly For Prevention, Dignosis — WHO
Every year, it is estimated that 10 million people develop active TB disease following the re-activation of the dormant organism or from community transmission of active forms of the organism. Of the number , approximately 1.1 million are children and 860,000 people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus .
Specifically, about 15 Nigerians die each hour due to TB, equivalent to about 347 deaths daily, 10,417 monthly and 125,000 in a year. As the world marks the 2024 Tuberculosis Day , the WHO has said that 10.6 million people fell ill with TB in 2022 while 1.3 million people died of TB in 2022 In 2021, the National TB, Leprosy and Buruli Ulcer Control Programme notified 207,785 having a gap of 56 per cent of the estimated cases unidentified.
Only about 11 per cent of children with TB disease out of the estimated country total of 77,000 cases were notified in 2021 by the NTBLCP. To mark the 2024 TB day, Nigeria has adopted a slogan, ‘No gree for TB, Check am o!’.
He observed that Nigeria government is yet to invest adequately in the TB programme like that of HIV/AIDS,however, some state like Lagos and Kaduna are experiencing increase domestic financing for tuberculosis intervention. Tajudeen said that Nigeria can actualize the realization of end Tb target by the year 2025 if adequately resourced. Speaking with The Guardian the Acting Board Chair, Stop TB Partnership Nigeria, Queen Ogbuji-Ladipo said that the world is still battling with tuberculosis 142 years after it was discovered because people that are malnourished, it lowers the immunity so the baterium that causes TB can thrive.
That is the good thing with the protection we give children at birth, when we eat well, not stressed and don’t have any other diseases that we call ‘’ comobidity’ then most people are protected’. All the people that have a crowded living condition, poverty as a whole is a thriving condition for tuberculosis and that’s one of the reason why it is still high in Nigeria. When we address the issue of stigma, people are more comfortable to come out, more comfortable to let their family members know and they are screened on time and are put on treatment early’.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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