Opinion: Ending tuberculosis: we can get there with a new roadmap
The Lancet Commission has set an audacious goal of achieving a world that's free of #TB within a generation. We will need new tools and strategies to get there. #WorldTBDay
Two recent events have nudged tuberculosis, the leading infectious cause of death around the word, onto the world stage. The first was the World Health Organization’s Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB, which was held in Moscow in 2017. The second was the United Nations High Level Meeting on tuberculosis in September 2018. At that seminal gathering of national leaders, a political declaration laid out two goals to achieve by 2022: prevent at least 30 million people from becoming ill with TB, and successfully treating 40 million people who are already infected with the disease.
That’s an audacious goal, especially given the fact that most of the tools currently available to prevent,
