Funding gaps risk undoing progress on TB, still killing 1.2 million yearly: WHO
November 13, 2025
Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial lung disease that is preventable and curable, remained “one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers” last year, claiming more than 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its Global Tuberculosis Report 2025.