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"Brazzaville – The African region is recording around 4% annual decline rate in
tuberculosis (TB) cases. Although the rate is double the global pace, the
region risks missing major milestones and targets to end the disease if efforts
are not scaled up rapidly.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) End TB Strategy calls for countries to
reduce TB deaths by 75% and cases by 50% by 2025 compared with the 2015 levels.
To cross the 2025 milestone, the annual pace of reduction should reach 10% per
year.
Yet despite the slowing pace towards the 2025 target, the African region has
made progress in recent years. For example, TB deaths in the region fell by 26%
between 2015 and 2021, with high-burden TB countries surpassing initial targets
to lower TB cases. Accelerating TB elimination progress is crucial. This year
World TB Day is being marked today under the theme “Yes, we can end TB” to spur
national action to bolster TB prevention and control.
“African countries have made remarkable progress against TB. The question is no
longer about whether we can end TB, but how fast we must act to reduce the
disease burden, save lives and maintain a high momentum towards a TB-free
world,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.
The End TB Strategy also sets 2030 targets to cut TB deaths by 90% and cases by
80%, for which the annual reduction progress must be accelerated to 17%, and
further reductions to realize the 2035 vision of a world free of TB."
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