Tuberculosis

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  • USAID trained Jennifer and other health volunteers to teach their community about TB and to serve as treatment partners for people with the disease. Photo credit: Kdador/PBSP. Courtesy USAID Philippines

    The U.S. Government Departments and Agencies charged with implementing the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis continue to make notable progress towards achieving the Plan's established milestones.

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    As the lead U.S. Government agency for global TB care, USAID works with partners to reach every person with TB, cure those in need of treatment and prevent new TB infections.

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At USAID, we focus our investments on strengthening national TB strategies and programs through bilateral programs in priority countries with high rates of TB, drug-resistant TB and HIV-associated TB.

10 million
new cases of TB (estimated, range, 9.0–11.1 million)
1.5 million
TB deaths (range, 1.3–1.6 million)
500,000
new drug-resistant TB cases (estimated)
156,000
drug-resistant TB cases on treatment

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supports high-quality screening, diagnosis and treatment services for millions of people affected by TB and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). In Fiscal Year 2018, with investments of $265 million focused primarily in 23 countries with bilateral TB funds, the U.S. Government achieved the following results in collaboration with each country's National TB Program:

 

23

Countries with bilateral programs

55

Countries received technical assistance

4,600,000

TB cases detected

14%

Increase in case notifications

89%

Treatment Success Rate

98,435

Individuals with DR-TB started on appropriate treatment

37,000,000

GeneXpert cartridges procured under concessional pricing (cumulative)

78

Countries that used the Bedaquiline Donation Program (cumulative)

40,000

Health workers trained

23

Countries completed drug-resistance surveys (cumulative)

22

Completed TB prevalence surveys (cumulative)

7

Research studies supported that focused on new treatment regimen

USAID's investments contributed to an estimated 58 million lives saved from 2000-2018, including people co-infected with HIV/AIDS.

 

What We Do

USAID works with partner governments to:

  • Prevent TB transmission and renew efforts to find the missing TB cases
  • Strengthen the capacity of national TB programs
  • Build country capacity to use existing resources and to turn evidence into policy
  • Expand the development of new TB diagnostics, drugs and vaccines

Last updated: January 16, 2020

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