Prevent TB to end TB
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of infectious disease deaths globally, killing three people every minute.1 The World Health Organization (WHO) published its End TB Strategy1 2 in 2015, which set
ambitious and laudable targets to reduce global incidence by 90% and deaths from TB by 95% by
2035. When global actors and heads of state convene in New York for the second UN high level meeting on
TB on 22 September 2023, however, the scorecard will reflect dismal progress.3 4 Among the failures, only 12.5 million adults of the 30 million targeted by the political declaration have received TB preventive therapy,1 despite the original 2021 goal.