Childhood Tuberculosis: not gone

Tuberculosis (TB) in children is often a neglected, in terms of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring prevalence. Children's, who are malnourished, orphans, or living with HIV vulnerable to this neglected epidemic. Many people consider TB a disease of the past, but TB remains a top killer of children worldwide, particularly because of their weaker immune systems. The WHO reported in 2009 that every year more than 1 million children get infected and about 176,000 die as a result. It’s time more action is taken to address this issue globally.

We (with VIDT) identified two child TB patients by our unique school level TB advocacy program and sputum collection campaign. TB care foundation provides free-of-charge medical care to the child TB patients as well as free nutritional supplements, food supplies, to the poorer Child TB patients.