“…The average TB growth coefficient found in this region was 48.8 per 100,000 inhabitants between 2010 and 2020, from 56.3 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018 to 64.3 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2019, representing an increase of 14.2% in new cases of the disease. In Bahia, in a study carried out on the clinical and epidemiological profiles from 2014 to 2019, there was also an increase in the incidence rate in 2019 (23.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants) representing 3% of the new cases of the disease when compared to 2014 (23.0 cases per 100,000 inhabitants) 14 . This could have occurred because the Ministry of Health, in 2018, distributed rapid molecular tests for TB, an expansion of access to diagnostic tools, which could have contributed to the increase in the number of TB notifications, and consequently, in the incidence rate 15 .…”