Tuberculosis

TB & COVID-19

Global Tuberculosis Programme and the COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Questions and answers

Global TB report

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OpenWHO Course

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Training courses dedicated to several aspects of Tuberculosis are available in multiple languages on the Open WHO platform. The TB courses are temporarily unavailable. They will be back online in February 2025.

UN High-level Meeting

Second High-level Meeting →

The United Nations General Assembly will hold the second high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis on 22 September 2023.

News

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23 June 2026

Departmental update

African countries convene to prepare for future rollout of new TB vaccines for adults and adolescents

21 May 2026

Note for Media

Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 21 May 2026

20 May 2026

Departmental update

The TB Vaccine Accelerator Council meets for the fourth time

6 May 2026

Departmental update

WHO and the Stop TB Partnership publish a TB near point-of-care and swab-based testing toolkit

Our work

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Ending TB in children and adolescents

Preventing TB

Scaling up diagnosis of TB and drug-resistant TB

Strengthening multisectoral accountability to end TB

Publications

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Guidance on evidence generation on new regimens for tuberculosis preventive treatment

The Guidance on evidence generation (GEG) on new regimens for tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) advises researchers, developers, funders, and...

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Priority setting in tuberculosis programme planning: policy brief

In an era of constrained resources and tightening budgets, strategic prioritization in tuberculosis (TB) programming is more critical than ever. Countries...

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The WHO Global tuberculosis report 2025 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, ...

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Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis: annual meeting report, Geneva, Switzerland, 10-11 June 2025

This report provides the conclusions and recommendations of the 25th meeting of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis (STAG-TB),...

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