Fighting COVID-19 slowed the spread of the virus, however, takes resources away from treating other diseases. Now without diagnosis and treatment are tens of thousands of tuberculosis patients throughout the world. Due to the fact that their disease will not be installed on time, and the treatment is not timely, experts predict by 2025 the emergence of a further 6.3 million TB patients. In a worst-case scenario, 1.4 million of them may die.Due to the fact that the world can focus all its attention and resources to combat the coronavirus, injured, and sometimes even proved to be curtailed programs to combat other major diseases including tuberculosis. Specialists of the international organization Stop TB Partnership working in the UN office for project services, together with scientists from Imperial College London, institutes Avenir Health and Johns Hopkins analyzed (.pdf) how to combat coronavirus can affect the incidence of tuberculosis.Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that affects your lungs. It is curable, but requires long-term treatment. Annually, TB infects about 10 million people in the world. According to the world health organization, in 2018 died of tuberculosis 1.5 million (and annually about the same), more than 200 thousand children. Tuberculosis remains the number of deaths in the most efficient killer among other infections. Vaccinations against tuberculosis do only children. Therefore, the main task in the fight against this disease — the time to diagnosis and prescribe treatment.Professionals Stop TB Partnership has set itself the question of how to affect short-term lockdown on the morbidity and mortality from TB in the next five years by the example of those countries where the tuberculosis problem is already acute: India, Kenya and Ukraine. Considered two possible scenarios: optimistic and pessimistic. The first involves a two-month lockdown and subsequent three-month recovery period, the second three-month lockdown and a ten-month recovery period. The results were extrapolated to the whole world.Calculations showed that according to the optimistic scenario in India will develop TB more than 514 thousand people beyond what might be in the normal course of events, and more than 150 thousand of them will die. From Kenya, these figures will amount to 12 thousand almost 5 thousand, in Ukraine — more than 2,300 and 450. To the world in General, this translates into 1.8 million cases and at 342.5 thousand deaths.According to the pessimistic scenario in India get sick, 1.8 million people, die more than 511 thousand, in Kenya, almost 41 thousand sick and nearly 16 million will die in Ukraine for almost 8 thousand sick and nearly 1,600 die. For the world is 6.3 million cases and 1.4 million deaths.According to experts, the Stop TB Partnership, the result of the inability to test, diagnose and treat in the period lo��down and, most importantly, insufficient vaccination effort in the world according to the TB will be dropped to 5-8 years ago. “It hurts me because we fell back from the TB to the 2013 figures and that so many people die, commented on the data of the study, the head of the Stop TB Partnership of the Ray of Diti in the email that got the world’s media.— I resent that just because of the fact that we can not control the situation and forget about existing programs, we lose so many, since human lives.””Tuberculosis has existed for thousands of years, she says. One vaccine is already 100 years old, and works two or three other potential vaccines. By 2027 we need to vaccinate about half a billion people. And we are surprised to observe that there is a disease that is 120 days old and have developed about 100 potential vaccines. So it seems to me that this world — pardon my French — there really screwed up”. “We have no vaccine for TB, there is no vaccine against HIV there is no vaccine against malaria, and from all these diseases, tuberculosis is the old. So why such a reaction? I think because we are a world of idiots. What else can I say?” — summed up Mrs. Ditiu.According to experts of the Stop TB Partnership as soon as possible after the completion of Loktionov back to achieved over the past years the progress in the fight against tuberculosis, the necessary additional measures and resources. It is imperative to immediately undertake the identification of cases in the vulnerable regions, to trace infected contacts, involving local communities, appoint and monitor the treatment, to inform the public about the dangers of the disease and its symptoms. In addition, it is necessary to provide a sufficient number of high-quality medicine “for each individual patient with tuberculosis.”Alena Miklashevskaya
