Why is TB still a major cause of death? IHME's Dr. Hmwe Hmwe Kyu explains ⬇️ "Challenges remain in the prevention, diagnosis & treatment of TB. About a 1/4 of the global pop. carries a latent TB infection and over 9M develop active TB disease." ms.spr.ly/6013Y80Xx

🧬 In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dr. Fauci met with colleagues in southern Africa and discovered that many AIDS patients were suffering. But it wasn’t that drugs weren’t available. They weren’t accessible.

💥 NEW DATA—GBD 2021 study examines YLDs, DALYs, & HALE, providing in-depth burden estimates for COVID-19, published in @TheLancet. Here’s what was found ⤵ Age-standardized rates of DALYs have increased for the first time in three decades: 4.1% ↑ in 2020 and 7.2% ↑ in 2021

Communicable disease continues to cause substantial morbidity and mortality globally, finds new GBD study published in @TheLancetInfDis. In 2019, an estimated 704M DALYs were associated with 🦠85 different pathogens🦠, including 309M in children under 5 🔗 ms.spr.ly/6189YB1Fz

Lower respiratory infections (LRI) are a major global contributor to morbidity & mortality. In the era of COVID-19 pandemic-associated interventions like social distancing, not only was COVID transmission reduced, but also the transmission of other LRI pathogens in 2020 & 2021.