November 07, 2023
Africa: TB Response Recovering From Pandemic but Accelerated Efforts Needed to Meet New Targets - WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) 2023 Global tuberculosis (TB) report underscores a significant worldwide recovery in the scale-up of TB diagnosis and treatment services in… Read more »
August 09, 2023
Africa: What's New in the TB Section of the 2023 WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) 2023 Model Lists of Essential Medicines, published in July 2023, features key updates to the tuberculosis (TB) section. These complement… Read more »
June 08, 2023
Africa: WHO and the Global Fund Announce Commitment for Enhanced Collaboration
Today the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) signed a new and revised Strategic Framework for… Read more »
May 08, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At UN Interactive Multi-Stakeholder Hearing On TB - 8 May 2023
Your Excellency Csaba Kõrösi, President of the General Assembly, Read more »
April 17, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Town Hall for the Civil Society Task Force On TB - 17 April 2023
Dear survivors of tuberculosis, friends from communities affected by TB, members of civil society, and our partners in ending TB. Read more »
March 24, 2023
Africa: WHO World TB Day Message - Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director, WHO Global TB Programme
Dear friends, colleagues and partners Read more »
March 22, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the World TB Day Online Talk - 22 March 2023
Your Excellency Ambassador Chen Xu, Read more »
January 18, 2023
Africa: WHO Announces Plans to Establish a TB Vaccine Accelerator Council
The adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis (TB) services has brought the urgency of vaccine development efforts into sharp focus. Speaking earlier today at a… Read more »
November 09, 2022
Africa: Global Meeting On Strengthening Public-Private Provider Engagement Calls for Greater Collaboration With All Care Providers to Get the TB Response Back-On-Track and to Enhance Accountability
Over 120 participants from countries, partners and civil society came together for the first time in-person since the pandemic, at the Global Meeting of the Working Group on… Read more »
October 27, 2022
Africa: Tuberculosis Deaths and Disease Increase During the Covid-19 Pandemic
An estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020, and 1.6 million people died from TB (including 187 000 among HIV positive… Read more »
October 13, 2022
Africa: WHO Convenes Global Experts to Update Guidance On National TB Prevalence Surveys
A meeting of a subgroup of WHO's Global Task Force on TB Impact Measurement was held in Geneva on 28-29 September to review draft content that has been developed for the new… Read more »
October 12, 2022
Africa: WHO Issues a New Framework to Strengthen Collaborative Action On TB and Comorbidities
The World Health Organization (WHO) is launching a new Framework for collaborative action on TB and comorbidities to address the limited uptake of collaborative activities to… Read more »