Main findings and messages
The advances are major: TB mortality has fallen 47% since
1990, with nearly all of that improvement taking place since
2000, when the MDGs were set.
In all, ef fective diagnosis and treatment of TB saved an
estimated 43 million lives between 2000 and 2014.
The MDG target to halt and reverse TB incidence has
been achieved on a worldwide basis, in each of the six WHO
regions and in 16 of the 22 high-burden countries that collectively
account for 80% of TB cases. Globally, TB incidence has
fallen by an average of 1.5% per year since 2000 and is now
18% lower than the level of 2000.
This year’s report describes higher global totals for new
TB cases than in previous years, but these reflect increased
and improved national data rather than any increase in the
spread of the disease.
Despite these advances and despite the fact that nearly
all cases can be cured, TB remains one of the world’s biggest
threats.
In 2014, TB killed 1.5 million people (1.1 million HIV-negative
and 0.4 million HIV-positive). The toll comprised 890 000
men, 480 000 women and 140 000 children.