🧑🏽⚕️👩🏼⚕️ Healthcare workers have an important role in the fight against resistant tuberculosis. Ask your doctor for the completely oral 💊 and shorter treatment, with fewer pills and no injections, recommended by @PAHO/WHO. #EndTB
Get tested, get treated, and follow your healthcare provider's guidance 👩🏾⚕️👨🏻⚕️. Preventative treatment can stop TB from progressing into a more serious illness. #EndTB
On #WorldTBDay, PAHO calls on countries to urgently expand access to prevention, detection and treatment services to accelerate progress towards ending #Tuberculosis (TB), one of the mostly deadly infectious diseases in the world.
TB affects those who live in poverty and social vulnerability environments the most. Political commitment, cross-sector collaboration, and accountability are needed to achieve a world without TB.
Yes! We must ensure universal access to tuberculosis services. Let’s invest in TB care 🧑⚕️, research, & innovation for Universal Health Coverage. #EndTB
Every day, in the Region of the Americas🌎, around 90 people lose their lives to TB and around 850 people become ill with this preventable and curable disease.
