More people, in more countries, are at risk of TB than ever before.
Tuberculosis creates more orphaned children than any other infectious disease.
TB kills more adults than all other infectious diseases combined. In 1995, more people died of TB than in any other year in human history. At least 30 million people will die from tuberculosis in the next ten years if current trends continue. TB already kills more people than AIDS, malaria, and tropical diseases combined. Multidrug-resistance is growing, threatening to make TB incurable again.