The World Tuberculosis Day observed in Nepal where 45 percent of its total population are infected with the disease

Nepalese students participate in a program marking the World TB (tuberculosis) Day in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 24, 2013. According to the National Tuberculosis Center (NTC) Nepal, around 40,000 people catch TB and 5,000-7,000 people die of it each year. NTC estimates that about 45 percent of Nepal’s total population is infected with TB. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Sunil Pradhan>