during the covid19 pandemic 7 things affected TB

  1. stigma arose for respiratory conditions so someone with a cough was considered to have TB, they may have gone into get tested for covid and found that they had TB even at a very early stage

  2. more resources redirected to COVID

  3. people lost jobs and livelyhoods leading to poverty which itself is a bigger risk factor for TB

  4. Global economy plummeted which leads to less money available for TB research

  5. poor diagnostic and treatment resource access

  6. preventable deaths

  7. reduction in TB up tp 40% in some places (but was this because less testing or because COVID rules helped TB not to occur)

3 factors that once controlled will result in NO MORE TB

Poverty

Health care systems

HIV