Increasing tuberculosis burden in Latin America: an alarming trend for global control efforts

The Region of the Americas comprises 46 countries and territories and Brazil and Peru are among the WHO high- TB burden countries. T o illustrate the recent increase in TB incidence in the region, we selected 12 countries from Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela), which account for approximately 80% of the total estimated TB cases in the region.