This resource emphasizes the severity of TB and HIV coinfection. The fact sheet includes information on how many people died in 2022 from AIDS-related TB, an estimated number of averted deaths between 2010 and 2022 due to TB treatment and antiretroviral therapy, and more.
This report highlights the issues surrounding high prices and poor supply of the drugs needed to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). The report provides an overview of available drug-resistant TB medicines, including drug sources, quality status, and price.
This report analyses the factors affecting access to treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), including new and repurposed drugs. Detailed pricing profiles of key DR-TB drugs are also provided.
The Global Drug Facility (GDF) is a mechanism to expand access to, and availability of, high-quality anti-TB drugs and diagnostics to support the Stop TB Strategy.
This document outlines progress that GDF has made to date, what still needs to be done and where high-level advocacy could help GDF to...
This booklet calls upon national programs for TB control, donors, financing institutions, civil society, media, and communities to join hands in intensifying the fight against drug-resistant TB.
This new report on anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance by the World Health Organization (WHO) updates “Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world: Report No. 4” published by WHO in 2008. It summarizes the latest data and provides latest estimates of the global epidemic of multidrug and...
This publication by the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) provides lessons learned from two years of capacity building for HIV treatment activists. Policy makers, activists, and donors can integrate these lessons learned into their...
This monograph provides information for use by tribal, state, and local public health practitioners and their legal counsel to help improve their understanding and use of relevant laws to respond to challenges concerning TB control. Part I of the monograph contains an introduction and table listing...
This monograph is a menu intended as a practical resource for public health officials and their legal counsel in their efforts to eliminate TB. It contains TB-related legal issues, and suggests possible approaches for addressing those issues, and provisions to be considered within the policy and...
This publication describes Lights of Hope, a stand-alone National Tuberculosis Communication Strategy for use in Kenya in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). It is based on a study of health-seeking behaviours among Kenyans, strategy design workshops with stakeholders, and meetings with frontline...