Health & Environment
TB Funding in Crisis, Warns Author and Campaigner John Green
The Hindu1h
THE BRIEF
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Author John Green highlighted that funding for tuberculosis remains in crisis as the infectious disease continues to claim millions of lives globally.
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Approximately 1.25 million people died from tuberculosis in 2023, according to figures cited by the author during interviews for his new book 'Everything is Tuberculosis'.
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Green noted that his campaign efforts draw on personal encounters at a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone to humanise the disease and highlight inadequate global response.