Overview
- Public health programs, marking World TB Day on Tuesday, rolled out tighter actions in Argentina as the Health Ministry issued a long‑overdue update to its technical manual to standardize diagnosis, care and follow‑up.
- Argentina’s surveillance shows more than 17,000 tuberculosis cases in 2025 with a growing share in people aged 15 to 44, and Salta recording the highest incidence while Buenos Aires City and Province concentrate most reports.
- Mexico’s Social Security Institute reported 21,170 respiratory TB cases in 2024 and urged early checkups using sputum tests, while highlighting 642,692 BCG doses given to newborns in 2025 to prevent severe pediatric disease.
- Clinicians and respiratory societies called for wider access to rapid molecular tests such as GeneXpert to confirm TB in under two hours and detect rifampicin resistance so patients start the right drugs sooner.
- Peru’s TB watchdogs warned of drug shortages for multidrug‑resistant cases in EsSalud that forced some patients off the newer six‑month oral regimen, raising risks of side effects, treatment failure and relapse.