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Area of Science:

  • Global Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Background:

  • Tuberculosis (TB) poses a significant burden on children and young adolescents (<15 years), with an estimated 1.1 million cases globally.
  • A substantial treatment gap exists, with only 400,000 children and adolescents receiving TB treatment, underscoring the need for improved interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent advancements in data collection and burden estimation for pediatric and adolescent TB.
  • To identify persistent data gaps at global and national levels crucial for guiding public health actions.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of current data collection efforts and estimation methodologies for TB in young populations.
  • Review of global TB notifications, focusing on age-disaggregation, TB-HIV, multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), and treatment outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Despite improvements, significant data gaps persist in pediatric TB surveillance and research, particularly for TB meningitis and other forms of extrapulmonary TB.
  • Global efforts are increasingly focusing on age-specific TB data, including co-infections and drug resistance, to refine burden estimates.

Conclusions:

  • Enhanced, frequent, and methodologically advanced burden estimates are essential to parallel improvements in data collection for child and adolescent TB.
  • Addressing remaining data gaps through strengthened national surveillance and collaborative research is critical to reduce TB morbidity and mortality in these vulnerable age groups.