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Tuberculosis (TB) factsheet
TB is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs. It can be serious, but it is treatable with antibiotics. Factsheet is translated into 32 languages.
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This factsheet has been developed to provide easier-to-read plain language information for groups that face health inequalities, such as ethnic minority communities and the socially excluded. It has been translated into these languages:
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Chinese (simplified)
- Chinese (traditional)
- Farsi (Persian)
- French
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Indian Punjabi
- Italian
- Kurdish Sorani
- Lithuanian
- Nepali
- Pahari
- Pakistani Punjabi
- Pashtu
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Shona
- Slovak
- Somali
- Spanish
- Sylheti
- Tagalog (Filipino)
- Tamil
- Tigrinya
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
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Published 13 February 2026