Tuberculosis on the rise for first time in decades after COVID-19 interrupted public health interventions and increased inequality

Photo caption: Places with limitations in access to health care, economic mobility and social stability – including many parts of sub-Saharan Africa and India – carry the highest numbers of tuberculosis cases every year. Shammi Mehra/AFP via Getty Images. Article by Carlos Franco-Paredes. The Conversation – July 7, 2023.

Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted public health efforts in the U.S. and globally, tuberculosis cases had been steadily falling for decades. I am an infectious disease clinician and public health practitioner who has been caring for underserved communities in the U.S. for more than two decades. During the pandemic […]

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