[Webinar] Can we avert the looming TB diabetes co-epidemic?
Channel: CNS
Date: 2015-10-27

This is a recording of the webinar on 'Can we avert the looming TB Diabetes co-epidemic?' on 27th October 2015. 

Diabetes weakens the immune system, and triples a person's risk of getting sick with TB. Today, 387 million people are affected by diabetes, with 77 per cent of cases in low- and middle-income countries where TB is prevalent. Diabetes is projected to affect 592 million people by 2035—and thereby raises the the spectre of a devastating impact on the global TB situation.

Recent studies have shown between 16 and 46 per cent of people living with TB also have diabetes, and many are unaware of it. With an estimated nine million cases of TB each year, the convergence of the two diseases threatens to become a major public health crisis.

The first-ever Global TB Diabetes Summit will open in Indonesia in early November 2015.

PANEL OF EXPERTS:

* Moderator: Shobha Shukla, Managing Editor, CNS (Citizen News Service)

* Dr Anthony D Harries, Director of Department of Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)

* Dr KS Sachdeva, Additional Director General, Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India

Thanks

CNS Webinars Team
Email: webinar@citizen-news.org

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