Facts at a glance HIV kills more than 6000 people every day worldwide.

1. Facts at a glance • HIV kills more than 6000 people every day worldwide. • Around 5000 people die from TB every day although TB is curable. • After HIV, TB is the greatest infectious killer of young people and adults in the world today. • TB is among the leading killers of people living with HIV (PLHIV). • TB causes at least 11% of total deaths in PLHIV and as much as 60% in some countries. • ¾ million PLHIV develop TB each year. • 14 million adults are co-infected with TB and HIV – 70% of them are concentrated in Africa. • In some regions of Africa, up to 80% of adult TB patients are HIV-infected. • TB can be successfully treated even if someone is HIV-infected. • Treatment of TB can prolong and improve the quality of life for HIV-positive people. • If TB is left unchecked in the next 20 years, almost one billion people will become newly • infected, 200 million will develop the disease, and 35 million will die of it. • More people are dying of TB today than ever before. • In most of eastern and southern Africa, where combined TB and HIV prevalence rates are the • highest in the world, lessthan half of TB patients are accessing effective TB services. • In Africa as a whole the number of TB cases rose dramatically - by 5% a year from 2003-2004. • Late diagnosis of TB and untreated HIV in some countries result in one third of HIV-positive • patients dying within weeks of being treated for TB. • Half of all new TB cases worldwide (4.5 million of 9 million) each year are in six Asian countries –Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines.