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Joint statement by the WHO Director-General and the WHO Civil Society Task Force on tuberculosis [1]

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Date: 2024-11

The recently published Global tuberculosis report 2024 presents an update on progress and challenges in the global fight against TB in 2023. Tuberculosis struck 10.8 million people in 2023 and killed around 1.25 million (including 161 000 among people with HIV), making it the top leading cause of death from an infectious agent. This is despite TB being a preventable and treatable disease, with rapid diagnostics, newer and safer drugs, shorter regimens, and updated guidelines and policies based on the latest evidence. While there has been significant progress against TB, it has been too slow, due largely to chronic underfunding of the TB response globally.





In view of these new findings, the WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB have issued a joint statement emphasizing the need to translate the commitments made by United Nations Member States at the second UN General Assembly High-level Meeting on the Fight Against Tuberculosis (UNHLM-TB ) in September 2023. In that historic event, Member States adopted a political declaration in which they committed to achieving ambitious targets by 2027:





diagnose and treat 90% of people with TB

provide TB preventive treatment to 90% of those eligible

test 100% of people with TB with rapid diagnostic tests

license at least one new TB vaccine within 5 years

mobilize at least US$ 22 billion a year by 2027, and US$ 5 billion for TB research.

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[1] Url: https://www.who.int/news/item/06-11-2024-joint-statement-by-the-who-director-general-and-the-who-civil-society-task-force-on-tuberculosis

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