2022

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