StopTB has a new report estimating the impact of the foreign aid freeze.
It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵
It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵
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They estimate it has led to around 100,000 people missing screening, 300 drug resistant TB cases going undiagnosed, and 10,000 drug susceptible cases going undiagnosed.
You would think covid would have taught people….
Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death in many poor countries.
Other TB surveys and studies in India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Cambodia have been halted or delayed.
Sometimes the figures rack up to the hundreds of thousands.