24th March 2026. Every year on 24 March, the global health community marks World TB Day, a major awareness campaign dedicated to combating tuberculosis. The date commemorates the moment in 1882 when Robert Koch discovered the bacterium causing TB, a breakthrough that opened the path toward diagnosis and treatment. Today, […]

online, self-paced. TB is a preventable and curable disease, yet it is a common cause of sickness and death in children and adolescents. Every year, more than 1 million children and young adolescents fall ill with TB. Young children are at increased risk of severe disease and death; adolescents are […]

We live in an age of pandemics. In this year’s report, Charting the Course, we review how recent progress in the fight to end TB will shape the global TB response for the millions impacted by this disease. For the first time in a decade, the TB situation is getting worse, […]

by Olivia Biermann. Worldwide, 30 countries account for almost 90% of the global tuberculosis burden. Ending tuberculosis (TB) will require early detection of people with TB, and active case-finding is one strategy for doing so. In this new study, researchers at the Department of Global Public Health shed light on […]

6th to 7th July 2019, Castelldefels, Spain. The main theme of the 2019 Gordon Research Seminar on Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Development is Molecular and Cellular Insights in Tuberculosis: Identifying Novel Drugs and Therapeutic Targets. A wide range of cutting edge research topics from drug discovery to clinical applications and combat tuberculosis will be […]

by Olivia Biermann. Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health challenge – particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) End TB Strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals aim at ending the global TB epidemic by 2035, which will require intensified activity to increase TB case detection […]

24th March 2018, worldwide. Each year we commemorate World TB Day on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert […]

UNICEF and TB Alliance invite you to join us on World TB Day 2017 to participate in an interactive installation developed by the Louder than TB Campaign and listen to leaders in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), including people whose lives have been directly affected by TB. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused […]

Tuberculosis – A Global Threat Tuberculosis (TB) is a global disease, found in every country in the world. It is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that two billion people – one third of the world’s population – are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), […]