BRICS countries call for united action to advance global progress against TB

24 March| GENEVA - BRICS countries have joined together on World TB Day to call for united action against tuberculosis (TB) – a disease responsible for more deaths in the last 200 years than any other disease. By prioritizing TB in domestic investments, BRICS countries aim to control and ultimately eliminate TB.

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21 March 2014| Geneva | About 3 million people are “missed” each year by health systems and many therefore do not get the TB care that they need and deserve. On World TB Day this year, WHO along with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and the Stop TB Partnership call for a global effort to find, treat and cure all those ill with TB and accelerate progress towards zero TB deaths, infections, suffering and stigma.

• Read the WHO, Stop TB Partnership and Global Fund joint statement on reaching the missed 3 million
• Read the advocacy brochure on reaching the 3 million

GENEVA | 20 MARCH 2014| Almost half a million people fell ill with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2012, yet less than one in 4 of these people was diagnosed, mainly due to a lack of access to quality diagnostic services.
But with an innovative international project, 27 countries are making promising progress in diagnosing MDR-TB, says the World Health Organization (WHO) in the lead-up to World TB Day, 24 March. The project known as EXPAND-TB (Expanding Access to New Diagnostics for TB), financed by UNITAID, helped to triple the number of MDR-TB cases diagnosed in participating countries.

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• Download the EXPAND-TB advocacy brief
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27 January 2014 | Geneva | This week the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) reviewed the WHO proposed global strategy and targets for tuberculosis (TB) prevention, care and control after 2015. The Executive Board endorsed and recommended, the post-2015 global TB strategy and targets and a resolution (in support of the strategy and targets) for consideration and adoption by the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly (WHA) which meets in May 2014. Please click below to access the:

• Resolution developed by the Executive Board
• WHO report on the proposed post-2015 TB Strategy and targets (as presented to the Executive Board)
• Short summary of the proposed post-2015 TB Strategy and targets