• TB is the single biggest killer of young women.
  
• Over one million women may needlessly die from TB this year. They are breadwinners, mothers, daughters and wives.

More women die each year of TB than of all maternal mortality causes combined.

Every year, 300000, children are forced to leave school because their parents have tuberculosis, and 100000, women lose their status as mothers and wives because of the social stigma.

TB is a Leading Killer of Women
Tuberculosis kills more women than all causes of maternal mortality combined. In some areas, women face special problems of access to tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment because of stigma and limitations on mobility. Source: World Health Report, 1999.