1. Contemporary Issues
in Pediatrics
By: Cierra Heatherly

2. Tuberculosis (TB)
• Tuberculosis is a disease caused by
bacteria passed through the air, from
person to person.
• TB can be passed when someone with TB
coughs, sneezes, speaks, or sings.
• Not everyone with tuberculosis bacteria
becomes sick with the disease.
• TB is one of the world’s deadliest disease

3. A Modern World Concern
• Childhood TB is ignored by scientists,
policy makers, healthcare professionals,
and product developers.
• TB infection and disease in children are
underestimated.

4. Global Tuberculosis
• This disease is an urgent public health
problem in many parts of the world.
• One third of the worlds population are
infected with TB
• Nine million people became sick with TB
disease in 2013, 80% lived in one of the 22
high burden countries.

5. Elimination Process
• The world is building strong national TB programs.
• CDC is supporting innovation to screening, diagnosing,
case finding, and curing for TB to stop spreading the
disease.
• They are also doing epidemiology and surveillance
(including drug resistant TB), laboratory strengthening,
and clinical/operational research that evaluates
promising diagnostic and treatment strategies and
informs the efficient use of new approaches to TB care

6. Works Cited
• http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/programs/tb.htm
• http://www.cdc.gov/TB/topic/globaltb/default.htm
• http://err.ersjournals.com/content/23/133/278.full
• http://www.cdc.gov/features/tbsymptoms/