Global Cause
Ending TB 2020
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New guidance in response to COVID-19 from the Global Fund in fighting TB, HIV and malaria
COVID-19 could derail progress on HIV, TB and malaria, through disruption to treatment or other interventions of supply chains of critical medicines and medical supplies. Working within its mandate to fight HIV, TB and malaria, and to strengthen systems for health, the Global Fund is encouraging countries to reprogram savings from existing grants and to...
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To beat TB, we need quality TB care for all people, by all providers
As countries move towards achieving UHC as part of the Sustainable Development Goals, efforts to engage all health providers to close gaps in care have gained more significance. Ensuring universal access to quality TB services is a significant challenge since over a third of the 10 million people estimated to have developed TB in 2018...
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How to stop multi-drug resistant TB
Multi-drug resistant TB is a global health threat, a global economic threat and, for many, a death threat. TB is the number-one infectious killer in the world. It is a contagious, airborne bacterial disease, which takes more than 4,000 lives a day. Moreover, when it comes to multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), only one in five...
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TB Courage: Jerick’s story of fighting drug-resistant TB
I actually had a fever for more than two weeks when I was diagnosed with TB. I suddenly felt heaviness in my breathing, and whenever I climbed up stairs I would easily get tired. I was rushed to the emergency room by my mom, and that’s when I was diagnosed of having water in my...
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MPs discuss the political will to end TB
The Global TB Caucus is an international network of parliamentarians united by their shared commitment to end the TB epidemic. With over 2,500 members in 150 countries, the Caucus aims to transform the response to TB through targeted interventions at national, regional and global levels. “Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and HIV/TB co-infections are new, grave threats...
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Success means finding all people with TB
In the last two years, a coalition of global health partners has invested vigorously in the goal to find more missing people with TB. These efforts are bearing fruit. In today’s interconnected world, nobody is safe from tuberculosis (TB). Like other diseases that spread from person to person through coughing and sneezing, TB represents a...
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Latent tuberculosis is “the seedbed for active TB”
Latent TB must be tackled with targeted testing and treatment of at-risk populations, rather than giving people blanket treatment. It’s more cost-effective — and more ethical. People with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) can feel well and not display any outward signs of TB, but still go on to develop active TB in the future. Worryingly,...
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Testing and treating TB – the challenges
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) a global emergency 25 years ago, yet TB remains among the top 10 causes of death worldwide and the leading infectious disease killer. TB is preventable and curable, yet millions of people with TB do not have access to affordable diagnostic tests and treatment – especially in...
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TB during conflict: Nur’s story
“There was conflict between the communities. We fled the village after evening prayers. It was nighttime. We only took some blankets with us. We walked for hours and reached the Naf River. When we reached the other side there was a big storm. We only had the blankets to protect us. There were many villagers...
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Keeping our promises: 2020 and the fight against TB
In 2018, people all around the world joined forces to raise the alarm to world leaders about a disease that kills over four thousand people a day, is increasingly resistant to drugs, and is spread through the air. This was met with surprise – many thought this disease had been beaten decades before. That disease...