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World Tuberculosis Day is a global healthcare event celebrated on the 24th of March every year since 1982, intending to remind and cherish achievements made toward the control of tuberculosis (TB). It also encourages everyone to join the ever-growing movement of eradicating tuberculosis and its antimicrobial resistance as much as possible.

World Tuberculosis Day reminds the world that tuberculosis is still the number one killer among the infectious causes of death. Although tuberculosis is a curable and preventable disease, the control of tuberculosis demands a highly cost-effective health intervention.

Tuberculosis and antibiotic drug resistance

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that most commonly affects the lungs. TB disease spreads via the air by coughing, sneezing, and spitting. It is believed that around one-fourth of the worldwide population has been infected with tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is synonymous with the development of drug resistance in the world. No doctor speaks about either of those without mentioning the other! The main culprits in the risk of transmission and development of drug resistance and its increase in severity and mortality are the delays in diagnostic confirmations and inadequacy in treatment.

Despite TB affecting low- and middle-income nations excessively, the global population of patients suffering from tuberculosis is 170 crores, of which 58.7 crore live in South East Asia. Each year more than 4000 Europeans die from the illness. In India, around 25,90,000 suffer from tuberculosis, with means every 188 people of one lakh Indian population is infected.

World Tuberculosis Day 2025 Theme

This year's theme for World Tuberculosis Day 2025 is "Yes! We Can End TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver." This theme highlights an urgent need for global commitment, increased funding, and immediate action to end tuberculosis as a public health hazard. 

Year by year, themes of World Tuberculosis Day

World Tuberculosis Day 2024 -"Yes! We can end TB!" 

World Tuberculosis Day 2023 - Yes! We can end TB!

World Tuberculosis Day 2022 - Invest to End TB. Save Lives

World Tuberculosis Day 2021 - The Clock is Ticking

World Tuberculosis Day 2020 - It’s time to End TB

World Tuberculosis Day 2019 - It's time for action

World Tuberculosis Day 2018 - Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world

World Tuberculosis Day 2025