World Tuberculosis Day 2023: It is the date on which Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis in 1882. It paved the way for the diagnosis and cure of tuberculosis disease.
World Tuberculosis Day is celebrated on March 24 to raise awareness about the harmful infectious disease of tuberculosis, its social and economic consequences, and also to accelerate efforts to end the tuberculosis epidemic globally. The COVID-19 pandemic has been seen to have reversed the progress made in the fight to end tuberculosis. Tuberculosis deaths in 2020 have increased for the first time.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 10.6 million suffered from tuberculosis in 2021 and 1.6 million people died. Furthermore, since 2000, 74 million lives have been saved thanks to global efforts to eradicate the disease.
World Tuberculosis Day 2023: Theme
This year’s theme for World Tuberculosis Day 2023 is Yes! We can end tuberculosis. The idea of this theme is to promote leadership and hope in the fight against Tuberculosis. With a new sense of determination to eradicate tuberculosis globally, this year’s goal promotes the adoption of new innovations and recommendations from WHO and uniting to fight the disease. Supporting the theme, international sand artist and Padma Shri awardee Sudarshan Paatnik took to Twitter to share this beautiful version of this year’s theme.
In #WorldTBDay ,My SandArt with message *Yes! We can end tuberculosis” on Puri beach in India. #TuberculosisDay pic.twitter.com/rlMl38wsko
– Sudarsan Pattnaik (@sudarsansand)
March 24, 2023
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World Tuberculosis Day 2023: Event
As this year’s World TB Day theme focuses on increasing country contributions at the 2023 UN meeting, WHO plans to issue a call to action urging member states to accelerate the process of oral tuberculosis treatment regimens.
Whereas last year WHO organized a special virtual talk show based on the theme “Investing to end tuberculosis. Saving lives.” The event took place in the format of an interview program with speakers via video on the WHO interactive web platform: End TB Forum. Keynote speakers for the talk show included ministers, leaders and other high-level government representatives, heads of agencies, TB survivors, civil society and partners.
World Tuberculosis Day 2023: quotes
1. “This is a great miracle: only with the secretion of the lungs, which is not especially dangerous, patients do not despair, even if they are close to the last. Regarding tuberculosis.” – Aretaeus of Cappadocia
2. “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted.” – Mother Teresa
3. “Humans are intelligent and let us act intelligently to ensure that the world is free of diseases like tuberculosis.” -A stranger
4. “Life is for living and living is not for smoking. Spread the work and be aware of the deadly tuberculosis.” – A stranger
5. “Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real lives.” – Simone Weil
6. “There is nothing in life to fear, you just have to understand it. Now is the time to understand more, so that we fear less.” – Marie Curie
7. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
8. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw
9. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?'” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. “He who has a reason to live can endure almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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World Tuberculosis Day 2023: Slogans
1. Imagine a world without tuberculosis.
2. Say no to tuberculosis, say it to everyone.
3. Join our hands against tuberculosis.
4. Tuberculosis can kill you.
5. Call for a world free of tuberculosis.
6. Tuberculosis spreads and causes fear! Fight and end it!
7. Fight tuberculosis before it attacks you.
8. Let us ask for a world free of tuberculosis.
9. It healed me – it will heal you too!
10. It’s time to join hands. It’s time to say goodbye to TB.
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World Tuberculosis Day 2023: Messages to raise awareness
1. Every person wants to live healthily and the key to being healthy is to live a life free of unhealthy habits. Let’s unite to fight tuberculosis!
2. The right treatment at the right time is the dream of many and we must make it a reality.
3. One step towards tuberculosis treatment can make a big difference.
4. There are still many people who need to be made aware of tuberculosis.
5. Let’s help people who suffer from Tuberculosis to recover. Let’s join hands against tuberculosis.
6. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a game. Life is a challenge, face it. Life is a dream, realize. Life is a sacrifice, offer it. Life is love, enjoy it. So, to enjoy life, let’s unite to fight tuberculosis!
7. Ignoring tuberculosis is like inviting problems into your life. So, don’t ignore and take treatment, say no to tuberculosis.
8. We can never let ourselves be defeated by the hardest disease. All we need is determination to fight it with determination.
9. When you see someone with tuberculosis, hug them.
10. Proper prevention can save your life. Say no to tuberculosis.
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