Global Tuberculosis Report 2023: Top findings and messages

Overview

There was a major global recovery in the number of people diagnosed with TB and treated in 2022, after 2 years of COVID-related disruptions. This has started to reverse or moderate the damaging impact of the pandemic on the number of people dying from or falling ill with TB. However, TB remained the world’s second leading cause of death from a single infectious agent in 2022, after COVID-19, and global TB targets have either been missed or remain off track.

Ending the global TB epidemic requires translating the commitments made at the 2023 UN high-level meeting on TB into action.