The world has been struggling against the tuberculosis menace since a long time, and now their trudges have brought fruit and the fight is showing signs of winning. The death rate this year is almost half as the records collected in 1990, says the 
of 2015, by WHO.
In 2014, almost 1.5 million tuberculosis patients unfortunately succumbed to death, and the WHO admits that these deaths could have been avoided. The organization comments that deaths can be evaded and TB incidence can be reduced, if the problem is diagnosed on time and the treatment is administered right away.
TB incidence can be controlled to a great extent with timely detection and reduction of treatment gaps. Plenty of funds need to available to cover the short falls and diagnosis of the disease, vaccines and treatment drugs. Together these can make all the difference in fighting off TB. Almost 43 million people are breathing healthy because of the correct diagnosis and treatment shows the data from 2000-2015.
These figures make one breathe a sigh of relief, Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General stated “if the world is to end this epidemic, it needs to scale up services and, critically, invest in research.”TB incidence has shown a fall of 18% since 2000, but Director of WHO’s Global TB Programme says “Despite the gains, the progress made against TB is far from sufficient. We are still facing a burden of 4,400 people dying every day, which is unacceptable in an era when you can diagnose and cure nearly every person with TB.”
TB took the lives if 4, 80,000 women, 8, 90,000 men, and nearly 1, 40,000 children, in 2014 and it can be called as deadly a killer as HIV and this fact is known globally. Higher global totals of TB have been noticed this year and the figure made evident is about 9.6 million, but this calculation may be because of in-depth studies and improved National data rather than an increase in incidents of TB. About 54 percent of TB cases world wide have been noticed in Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and India.
Almost 3.3% from the new cases were said to have been diagnosed with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), and this amount is similar to the past few years.
