5th Annual Stop TB Trot

TB is still one of the world's deadliest diseases.

• About 1/3 of the world's population, and an estimated 11 million persons in the United States are infected with TB.
  
  
• Each year, nearly 9 million people around the world become sick with TB and 2 million will die due to TB.
  
  
• Without treatment, about 5-10% of infected persons will develop active TB disease at some point in their lives.
  
  
• Drug-resistant TB is very difficult and costly to treat. Persons with drug-resistant TB are more likely to die of TB than persons with drug-susceptible TB.
  
  
• In Colorado the number of active TB cases is on average 100 per year.
  
  
• TB treatment lasts 6 to 24 months. Patients may be unable to work and care for their families for several months.

Join us on March 24

Help us celebrate World TB Day at the 5th Annual Stop TB Trot - a 5K run / walk on March 24, 2013, to promote awareness of tuberculosis (TB) infection and disease in Colorado and around the world. Registration and packet pick-up start at 8 a.m., and the race starts at 9:30 a.m., rain or snow. Last year's race was a huge success with 258 participants and over $5,600 raised for the TB Patient Assistance Fund. This fund has helped provide needy Denver area TB patients with temporary housing, food and transportation while on TB treatment.