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In advance of the 2023 UN High Level Meeting on TB, the World Health Organization (WHO) has expanded the scope of the WHO Director-General’s Flagship Initiative to fast-track progress towards ending TB, over the period 2023-2027. The focus of the initiative will be on ensuring universal access to prevention, care and the latest tools and technologies to …
World TB Day, falling on March 24th each year, is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries. It commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch astounded the scientific community by announcing that …
The Global Plan to End TB, 2023–2030 (Global Plan) is a plan for ending TB as a public health challenge by 2030—the year by which governments around the world have committed to achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. The plan anticipates the priority actions that will be necessary in the wake of the …
Population-based screening programmes for latent and active tuberculosis (TB) were implemented in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in 2017 and 2018. A transmission dynamic model of TB informed by local data to capture the Marshall Islands epidemic’s historical dynamics was developed. Modelling suggests that it would be possible to achieve TB pre-elimination by 2040 …
On World TB Day, WHO calls for an urgent investment of resources, support, care and information into the fight against tuberculosis (TB). Although 66 million lives have been saved since 2000, the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed those gains. For the first time in over a decade, TB deaths increased in 2020. Ongoing conflicts across Eastern …
Digital health technologies present a pivotal opportunity to modernize healthcare systems by empowering underserved communities and people affected by TB, improving access to quality healthcare, increasing programmatic efficiencies, enhancing healthcare professionals’ work, and augmenting healthcare data management to enable real-time decision-making. Read more Back to News
TBPod is a podcast for clinicians and policymakers caring for patients with tuberculosis. The podcast presents discussions with expert clinicians, researchers, policymakers and advocates about their work in the field of tuberculosis. Read more Back to News
TB remains the top infectious killer in the world claiming close to 4000 lives a day. Millions of people continue to fall ill with TB- a preventable and curable disease each year. The Global TB Report 2020 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and progress in the response, at global, regional …
Lancet Digital Health just published the new ground-breaking study by the Stop TB Partnership, showing that artificial intelligence (AI) by far outperformed experienced human radiologists in diagnosing tuberculosis (TB). In theory, and increasingly in practice, AI can be used in synergy with existing human resources to accelerate TB case detection on the ground, modernizing TB …
The Global Fund Results Report reveals the devastating impact of COVID-19 on global HIV, TB and Malaria Programs. The Results Report shows that while some progress was made, key programmatic results have declined for the first time in the history of the Global Fund. Read more Back to News
