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A WORLD FREE OF TB

Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease that is preventable and curable. WHO is working to dramatically reduce the burden of TB, and halve TB deaths and prevalence by 2015, through its Stop TB Strategy and supporting the Global Plan to Stop TB.

Global tuberculosis control - a short update to the 2009 report

8 December 2009 - This report is a short update to the WHO report on global tuberculosis (TB) control that was published in March 2009, based on data collected from July to September 2009. It is designed to fill an 18-month gap between the full reports of 2009 (in March) and 2010 (in October), following changes to the production cycle of the report in 2009 that have been made to ensure that future reports in the series contain more up-to-date data.
The report | News archive |

HIGHLIGHTS

Stop TB Department launches TB newsletter with regular news and features on tuberculosis control

NEW GUIDELINES

Treatment of tuberculosis: guidelines - 4th edition

AIRBORNE

A journey into the challenges and solutions to stopping MDR-TB and XDR-TB

TOOLS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

Global Fund grant guidance, TB planning and budgeting tool, recording and reporting, epidemiology and surveillance online workshop
More information

TB MEETINGS

Key meeting links
FACTS

Fact sheets on tuberculosis

WORLD TB DAY

Designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world.
Information on World TB Day