Last year, 198 children and adolescents contracted tuberculosis.
“Elchi” reports that this was stated by Irada Akhundova, director of the Scientific Research Institute of Lung Diseases of the Ministry of Health.
She stated that this indicator for 2024 was 278.
“While the incidence rate of tuberculosis per 100,000 people was 41.1 in 2015, this figure decreased to 21.5 in 2025. Approximately two-thirds of tuberculosis patients are men, and one-third are women. The detection level of the disease has also significantly increased. For instance, while this indicator was 53 percent in 2015, it reached 86 percent in 2025,” she said.