Poverty is the greatest risk factor for children to develop TB 1. Poverty gives rise to these:
- overcrowding
- malnutrition
- close contact with infectious people
Caretakers die of TB leaving millions of orphaned children.
- 10 million children were orphaned due to TB in 2010 3
- Orphans continue the cycle of poverty.
Treatment costs and sickness from TB lead to more poverty 2
- Transportation and food needs burden families
- Women cannot care for children
- Men can no longer work
Children are no longer educated
- Families cannot afford school uniforms & fees
- Children are taken out of school to work
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