Why TB still kills: The unfinished fight against a preventable disease

Tuberculosis (TB) programmes worldwide have expanded diagnosis and treatment on a historic scale. Millions of lives have been saved. Yet TB remains the deadliest infectious disease in the world. The gap between progress and elimination is not a mystery of medicine. It is a failure of prevention, politics, and priorities, said Dr Tara Singh Bam, noted global health advocate.

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From the brink of defeat how frontline workers supported children to beat TB

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It is deeply disturbing that the world largely forgot children when confronting tuberculosis (TB) - the deadliest infectious disease. Stronger data collection on childhood TB began only about a decade and a half ago, and the first child-friendly formulation was introduced just ten years ago, in Kenya in 2016. At world's largest AIDS conference, the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a special publication was launched by Humana People to People India showcasing four success stories of children (from socially and economically marginalised communities) tiding to cure and health.