5,000 people die from TB every day and TB accounts for a quarter of all AIDS-related deaths.
To mark the day the Alliance’s senior adviser on health systems and services, Dr Gitau Mburu, has blogged for Global Health Magazine you can it read here.
This World TB day offers an opportunity to reflect on the recent developments made in the area of tuberculosis research and development, including the newly endorsed geneXpert which can has the potential to significantly increase TB case finding as well as diagnosis to Rifampicin resistance. Read more on the geneXpert.
You can also download our latest HIV Update on approaches to TB/HIV integration and a useful factsheet on Lessons learned from TB work with people living with HIV.
Find out more about world TB Day on the Stop TB Partnership website.