Ending Tuberculosis in Children

At least 1 million children fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year. Children represent about 11% of all TB cases. In 2015, 210,000 children died of TB, including 40,000 TB deaths among children who were HIV positive. Researchers estimate that 67 million children are infected with TB (latent TB) and are therefore at risk of developing disease in the future.

Researchers estimate that 25,000 children develop multidrug-resistant TB every year.