[video] Stop TB Partnership head Dr Lucica Ditiu's message at World Social Forum 2024

Plan to develop new vaccines could help stop TB in our children’s lifetimes

The following is a guest blog post by Dr Lucica Ditiu, executive secretary of the Stop TB Partnership, and was published on the Science Speaks Blog on occasion of the newly released document Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Strategic Blueprint for the Next Decade. The new strategy reflects the consensus of members of the TB vaccine research and development community to develop new vaccines that could help stop TB in our children’s lifetimes.

Some 10 million children have been orphaned by the death of a parent from tuberculosis (TB). That number is shocking, but it does not begin to account for the children who must quit school to care for sick parents, or go to work to keep the family fed, or those who catch TB from a parent or another relative, or those who die from TB without ever accessing proper treatment.