Time for religious leaders to speak out - No child should die of TB

Statistics about TB in children make shocking reading, especially because TB is preventable and curable. Yet in 2015, 240,000 children died of TB, which is 660 deaths every day, including 40,000 TB deaths among children living with HIV. Eighty per cent of child TB deaths occur in children younger than five. At least 1 million children fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) every year and researchers estimate that as many as 67 million children are infected with TB (latent TB) and are therefore at risk of developing the disease in the future.