Gestor bibliográfico Crisis y Salud

As World TB Day approaches on March 24, the Stop TB Partnership's Global Plan to Stop TB and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria face deficits in funding. With many demands on political attention in a global economic downturn, will progress on tuberculosis fall behind? Experts note that tuberculosis efforts could save 14 million lives by 2015 and have broader benefits for nations and economies. Widespread agreement exists that worldwide progress has been remarkable, but the discipline faces new challenges, and now investment could fall rather than increase. When the Global Plan to Stop TB was launched in 2006, the funding deficit was about US$30 billion. Mario Raviglione (WHO; Geneva, Switzerland) and Marcos Espinal (Stop TB Partnership; Geneva, Switzerland) explained to TLID that bridging the funding deficits is key to reaching both the Millennium De…