If effective treatment is not given, the death rate for active TB cases is up to 66%.

TB cases were still being reported; immunization implementation was slow.

The main source of drug-resistant TB cases are patients who do not complete treatment.

According to the new report, such cases now total 8.9 percent of the TB cases.

Drug resistance testing occurs in only 5% of TB cases worldwide.

TB cases would again increase if we reduce our efforts.

It was the first significant decline for the country since 1985, when TB cases began an upward trend.

There are roughly 14,000 new TB cases diagnosed each year.

As a result, thousands of TB cases were discovered before disease spread to others.

A reason is that most TB cases are destitute, from poor countries who can pay little.