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TB is the largest cause of adult deaths from any single infectious disease, and ranks among the top 10 causes of death worldwide. According to the latest (2017) World Health Organization Global Tuberculosis Report, “The TB epidemic is larger than previously estimated reflecting new surveillance and survey data from India.” Specifically,

In 2016 there were an estimated 10.4 million new (incident) TB cases worldwide, of which 6.2 million (59.5%) were among men, 3.2 million (30.5%) among women, and 1.0 million (10%) among children. People living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) accounted for 1.0 million (10%) of all new TB cases.

Furthermore,

In 2016, there were an estimated 490,000 new cases of multidrug-resistant TB and an additional 110,000 people with rifampicin-resistant TB who were also newly eligible for multidrug-resistant TB treatment.

Lastly,

there were an estimated 1.3 million TB deaths in 2016, and an additional 0.4 million deaths resulting from TB disease among people living with HIV. [16]