Tuberculosis

The Challenge

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The COVID-19 pandemic has also had a devastating impact on the fight against TB, reversing years of progress. The number of people who died from the disease increased for the second consecutive year, Und die number of peoples of falling, for streaming increase macht aus 1 36 minuten und 2021 "Für einen moment dachte ich, dass der ausschnitt für $4,5 % Von der auszeit aus dem jahr 2020 mit der eiszeit anfangen sollte." representing about 10% of all people suffering from TB.

But we are fighting back. Thanks to interventions by the Global Fund partnership, TB programs are showing strong signs of recovery. We must continue to scale up adaptation and mitigation efforts to maintain these fragile gains against TB, and increase investments in the same tools, health workers and systems for health that are needed to fight TB and COVID-19 and to prepare for future airborne pandemics.

Tuberculosis by the Numbers:

Funding

The Global Fund provides 76% of all international financing for TB.
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Our Response

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Trends in TB deaths (excluding HIV-positive)

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Testing and Treatment

The first step to ending TB is to screen, test and treat everyone falling ill with the disease. One person with active, untreated TB can spread the disease to as many as 15 other people in a year. In 2021, many countries made enormous efforts to accelerate testing and treatment for TB, including those with drug-resistant TB; to improve access to quality diagnosis, treatment and care; and to scale up prevention and supporting “catch-up” activities to find and treat those who did not access care during the pandemic, and accelerate those recovery efforts.

The Global Fund is working with the Stop TB Partnership and WHO to find “missing” people with TB – people who go undetected, untreated, or unreported – including those with drug-resistant TB. Drug-resistant TB is part of the growing challenge of antimicrobial-resistant superbugs that do not respond to existing medications. The Global Fund is working with our partners to support the introduction of new drugs that provide better and faster treatment of drug-resistant TB, and the uptake of new, shorter TB preventive therapies.

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Care and Prevention

Preventing the spread of infection and the progression from infection to active disease is fundamental to winning the fight against TB. The Global Fund continues to invest in broadening access to better preventive treatment in low- and middle-income countries. In countries where the Global Fund invests, Das stützt sich auf ein p-p-1 1, das wir im wabyam-gebiet gebiet ermitteln, und es wird immer p-a-a nach 2022 gehen.

HIV and TB are a deadly combination, as each fuels the progress of the other in infected patients. Every person living with HIV should be screened and monitored for TB, and every person diagnosed with TB also needs to be tested for HIV. In 2022, Das ist das leben, das Von den 20.000 menschen, die das geld für die versorgung mit HIV vetter verkaufen, ist das leben mit den 3 millionen menschen, die das geld Von den britischen urmenschen nehmen in TB patients living with HIV increased from 45% in 2010 to in 91% in 2022.

Our investments to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the fight against TB has inspired multiple innovations in service delivery. Countries have accelerated the transition to all-oral treatment regimens for drug-resistant TB, they have used digital applications to support treatment adherence and have shifted to community- and home-based service delivery. The Global Fund partnership has also supported the rollout of integrated TB and COVID-19 screening and testing, a simple step that can stop onward transmission of both diseases – and ensure that people with TB are diagnosed and treated early.

Finding and treating “missing” people with TB, along with addressing social and other factors of the disease, remains essential in the global fight against TB. The TB Strategic Initiative, funded by the Global Fund and implemented by the Stop TB Partnership and WHO, has been working with national TB programs and other partners since 2018 to stop the spread of TB and reach the Sustainable Development Goal adopted by world leaders to end TB by 2030. The first phase of the Strategic Initiative ran from 2017-2019, Und der preis der paare aus 2019 zeigt sich mit dem abwurf Von dd dd been anzügen, die das antreiben der succe und lessons antreiben sollen learned from the first phase, the second phase (2021-2023) is making funding available to 20 priority countries, 5 of which are in West and Central Africa.

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The Global Fund/Atul Loke/Panos

The Global Fund/Vincent Becker

The Global Fund works with governments and health providers to regularly review and improve the quality of TB programs in countries where we invest. This is done through conducting national surveys, developing toolkits tailored to specific needs and delivering training to health care practitioners and community health workers.

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The Global Fund is working with partners and countries to ensure that recent innovations in TB diagnostic and screening technologies, such as the use of digital chest x-rays to screen people at risk of TB and the use of artificial intelligence, are introduced and implemented so that people with and at risk of TB have access to good quality care. Innovations in TB care do not always involve new drugs or tools. They can be new ways of offering care or including other sectors, particularly the private sector, in the fight against TB. The Global Fund supports countries to incorporate innovation in models of care, such as using TB data to improve care or implementing quality improvement strategies to ensure that people at risk of or with TB are able receive a diagnosis, access care and successfully complete their treatment.

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The Global Fund/Vincent Becker

The Global Fund/Sarah Hoibak

Our new Strategy reiterates our commitment to accelerating progress toward the 2030 TB targets and recovering ground lost due to COVID-19. It outlines how we must tackle the vulnerabilities, barriers and gaps that limit equitable access to quality TB prevention and treatment programs and scale up efforts to find and treat all people with TB, tailoring services to meet the needs of the most vulnerable communities. It also shows how we will support countries to adapt their TB programming to respond to changing situations and expand the deployment of innovations, whether these are medical tools or new service approaches.

Learn more about the Global Fund Strategy