World Tuberculosis Day or World TB Day is celebrated every year on March 24. The main aim of celebrating World TB Day is to inform people about TB as well as to know about TB, how TB is affecting their health, society and the economy of the country. The main objective of celebrating World TB Day is also to ensure adequate funding to the institutions by making people aware of it and to motivate the government society with its responsibility to get the treatment of TB without any discrimination to the last person of the society.
On March 24, Dr Robert Koch, a German physician and microbiologist, surprised the scientific community by announcing that he had also come to know about the reason behind tuberculosis of TB Bacillus. He had shared his discovery with a group of scientists at the Berlin University's Institute of Sanitation. In 1982, 100 years after Robert Koch's discovery, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) requested to celebrate March 24 as World TB Day. However, World TB Day was officially marked as an annual event by the WHO's World Health Assembly and the United Nations after a decade.
In 1995, the WHO joined hands with the Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Foundation (KNCV) to host the inaugural World TB Day Advocacy Meeting in Den Haig, The Netherlands. He continued this incident over the next few years. A year later, KNCV, IUATLD and other related organizations came together to host other ahem activities around World TB Day. In 1997, when the world body's TB control program DOTS was declared a health success, the first World Tuberculosis Day was officially celebrated by the WHO. 1998 is an important year in the history of World TB Day. That was the year when the WHO first saw 20 countries hosting the world's most TB patients.
