Global: TB remains a major cause of illness and death worldwide - WHO

This World Health Organization report on global tuberculosis (TB) control compiles data from over 200 countries to monitor the scale and direction of TB epidemics, implementation and the impact of the Stop TB Strategy. The paper finds that there were an estimated 9.2 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths from TB in 2006 including 0.2 million deaths among people infected with HIV.