The second United Nations high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis is scheduled from next week (link) in New York.
Here is quick summary of progress so far on WHO’s End TB Strategy 2025 between 2018- 2022 In a way, this will set the context for upcoming discussion.
A picture is worth thousand words:
On a closer look, very evident that outcome are way shorter than targeted numbers. Most underwhelming area being
- TB incident rate reduction by 10% against target of 50%;
- TB death reduction by 6% against target of 75%
- MDR TB treatment for children at 15% of target only.
On funding side, funds committed are at 5.4B USD in 2021 against required 13B USD every year. Likewise, less than 50% funding was made available for TB research against budgeted numbers.
My personal hypothesis/conjecture is, funding agencies will be forced to step-up the fund availability to catch-up on lost years and to bring the program back on track to meet the 2030 milestone.
Thanks,
Tarun
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