No one should die of Tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is a curable infectious disease. In 2022 alone, over 10.6 million people fell with tuberculosis, and 1.3 million people died from this preventable disease. That makes it the most deadly infectious disease in history! Over 80% of these cases and deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries
TB Deaths are caused by Injustice.
- Effectively diagnosing, treating, and preventing TB is a social justice issue!
- Tuberculosis transmission and progression are largely driven by social factors such as poor living conditions and poor nutrition.
- A total of 1.3 million people died from TB in 2022 (including 167 000 people with HIV).In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) worldwide, including 5.8 million men, 3.5 million women and 1.3 million children.
- Roughly 2 in 5 patients with multidrug-resistant TB do not have access to proper testing to find out if their TB is a multidrug-resistant strain.
Our Partners In Health Engage network aims to raise $120K via 4000 fundraising donors this year to support the treatment of TB where most needed in 9 different PIH care delivery sites.
With your sustained attention and support, we aim to assist PIH in supplying comprehensive 4-month treatment courses for TB or 6-month treatment courses for MDR-TB for adults and children. Your donations will also support in X-rays screening and laboratory tests to diagnose TB, along with monthly nutritional support.
Support PIH in preventing undue TB deaths.
PIH has battled this inequity for more than two decades, by treating and preventing TB, its more severe, drug-resistant variants, and co-infections of HIV and TB in some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the world.
PIH’s community-based approach to care has resulted in some of the highest cure rates and lowest treatment default rates ever recorded.
A mission to radically change the way Tuberculosis treatment is delivered worldwide!
In 2023, PIH provided tuberculosis care in nine countries, performing over 36,000 tests to screen patients with suspected TB and seeing 84% of PIH-supported TB patients successfully complete a full course of treatment. Countries include Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone
No one should die of TB due to lack of treatment and diagnosis of TB. Yet, an estimate of 1.3 million people will die of TB this year! Donate now and support PIH’s programming to prevent and treat tuberculosis across 9 different countries!
Caption for all photos: (top photo) Agatha Baker, 19, holds her 3-year-old daughter, Pauline in Puluken, Liberia. Pauline recently survived TB after her mother took her to PIH-supported JJ Dossen Hospital for treatment.(middle photo) The PIH team in Peru, known locally as Socios En Salud, loads equipment into a boat to provide TB screenings in Loreto, a remote region of the Amazon rainforest. (bottom photo) Nthabiseng Mokone is discharged from a PIH-supported tuberculosis half-way home in Maseru, Lesotho, following six months of treatment for MDR-TB.