The Clock Is Ticking
We are moving closer and closer to World TB Day 2021, and we want to make sure that all of us engaged in the TB response, as well as people affected by TB and TB survivors align and get together around this year’s theme “The Clock Is Ticking.”
The COVID-19 pandemic is in its second year and is unfortunately taking increasing medical resources and attention away from providing necessary life-saving diagnosis, medicine and care to people suffering from tuberculosis (TB). Alarmingly, in low and lower-middle-income countries, TB remains the biggest infectious disease killer. We have now less than two years left to fulfill our promises and take action on the commitments made at the United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB in 2018 so, The Clock Is Ticking.
With this theme, the Stop TB Partnership and all partners are sounding the alarm that while we focuse on COVID-19, every single day 4000 people die and 27 000 people get sick with TB.
Now more than ever, we need redoubled support to raise awareness and our ambitions, honor commitments and mobilize badly needed resources to help achieve the UNHLM targets by 2022. World leaders have until December 2022 to make good on their words and keep their promises, or we risk losing thousands of lives to a curable and preventable disease.
Let us raise awareness ahead of World TB Day 2021!