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New funding and interest in tuberculosis is producing encouraging results, but there is still more work to be done. We support the goals of the Global Plan to Stop TB, which aims to treat 50 million people with TB and prevent 14 million deaths from the disease by 2015.

Learn more below and visit the program page for more details about our work in this area.

India Takes Leadership on TB

March 23, 2012 / Gopi Gopalakrishnan, Ashok Kumar, Peter Small

"Has it been two weeks?" So asks Brother Sputum (Bulgham Bhai) in India’s new TB awareness campaign.

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A Pathway to New TB Vaccines

March 23, 2012 / Peggy Johnston, Jelle Thole

Many people in the United States and Europe think of tuberculosis (TB) as a disease of the past. But the facts show that TB remains a major global health challenge.

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Accelerating the Fight Against TB

March 23, 2012 / Joanne Carter

This year marks a decade since the creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The Fund’s impact on the TB fight has been extraordinary.

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World TB Day: New Hope for a Worldwide Problem

March 22, 2012 / Joanna Breitstein

The main point, says Endalkachew, a TB survivor from Ethiopia, is that he is alive today. But it hasn’t been easy.

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U.S. Congress Faces Funding Decision on HIV, Malaria

March 01, 2012 / Kaitlin Christenson

The U.S. Congress is now considering the Obama administration’s budget for global health in the coming weeks and months.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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