Tuberculous is 2nd to HIV in world deaths
The World Health Organization has stated that tuberculosis now rivals HIV/AIDS in deaths from infectious diseases. In 2014 1.2 million people died from HIV/AIDS while 1.1 million died from TB. Director of the WHO, Mario Raviglione, said the report reflects the dramatic gains in access to HIV/AIDS treatment in the past decade, which has helped a lot of people survive their infections. Tuberculosis treatment has saved 43 million lives since 2000. However TB cases can be treated with a high success rate, meaning that even with these efficient efforts to save lives, it still has a high death toll, just as many deaths as HIV/AIDS.
Tuberculosis is the cause for so many deaths, yet you never hear about it. And when you do it doesn't sound as menacing as HIV/AIDS. TB's treatment is way more likely to save someone lives as opposed to HIV treatments, yet the death toll still remains extremely high. We should be funding for research and awareness for tuberculosis because it doesn't matter if someone dies to TB or to HIV, someone is still dead in the end. If we spend so much for HIV/AIDS research, TB should get just as much because it causes the same amount of deaths.
Tuberculosis is the cause for so many deaths, yet you never hear about it. And when you do it doesn't sound as menacing as HIV/AIDS. TB's treatment is way more likely to save someone lives as opposed to HIV treatments, yet the death toll still remains extremely high. We should be funding for research and awareness for tuberculosis because it doesn't matter if someone dies to TB or to HIV, someone is still dead in the end. If we spend so much for HIV/AIDS research, TB should get just as much because it causes the same amount of deaths.