A new joint surveillance report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Europe Office highlights persistent gaps in tuberculosis (TB) detection and care across the Europe Region, which comprises 53 countries.
The situation in the 30 EU/EEA countries is better than the wider region, though Romania stands out for particularly elevated levels of the disease. Despite progress over the past decade, the report shows that one in five TB cases in EU/EEA countries still go undiagnosed or unreported, undermining efforts to eliminate the disease.
In 2024, 38,249 TB cases were reported across the EU/EEA, but detection gaps and weak follow-up systems remain major challenges. Notably, 22% of patients who begin treatment are not evaluated after one year, raising concerns about treatment success and ongoing transmission. These gaps are especially worrying…
