World Tuberculosis Day

World Tuberculosis Day
Participants at World Tuberculosis Day 2012
Observed byAll UN Member States
Date24 March
Next time24 March 2025 (2025-03-24)
Frequencyannual

World Tuberculosis Day, observed on 24 March each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and efforts to eliminate the disease. In 2018, 10 million people fell ill with TB, and 1.5 million died from the disease, mostly in low and middle-income countries. This also makes it the leading cause of death from an infectious disease.[1]

World TB Day is one of eleven official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World Health Day, World Chagas Disease Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, World Immunization Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day, World Patient Safety Day and World AIDS Day.[2]

  1. ^ "Global Tuberculosis Report" (PDF). WHO. 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. ^ World Health Organization, WHO campaigns.