Tuberculosis (TB)

an airborne
infection

Funding for TB prevention

10
and care, needs to be doubled
TB is causes of from the current level of
among the TOP death
worwide 6 to 7 billion USD to
Through the Sustainable
one third of
the world’s population
(approx 2 billion people)
13 billion
USD
Development Goals and their
endorsement of the
WHO End TB Strategy,
per annum UN Member States
have committed to

ending the
TB epidemic
by 2030
is infected with TB

TB research and development

EVERY YEAR are severely underfunded
with at least additional
26
billion
10 million
people 1.3 USD The first ever
UN High-Level Meeting on TB
develop TB per year needed to accelerate will take place on
development of new,
Of them, approx. innovative tools
26
one million are
children September
one million are people
living with HIV
2030
2018
The meeting aims to build
momentum, drive
million
4 people
miss out on TB care and treatment
Without immediate
concrete action, an estimated
cross-sectoral action
and accelerate global
and national progress
28 million people and achieve the goal
will die from TB by 2030 of ending TB.
Every year nearly
at a global economic cost of

600 000 trillion

people develop drug-resistant TB
and 1 USD
However, every dollar #UNHLMTB
spent on TB could return #ENDTB
benefits to society
only 1 in 4 people received treatment worth 27USD to 85USD www.stoptb.org

*Data from the Global Tuberculosis Report 2018