Global tuberculosis control : surveillance, planning, financing : WHO report 2007

TB is still a major cause of death worldwide, but the global epidemic is on the threshold of decline.

Most government health services now recognize that TB control must go beyond DOTS, but the broader Stop TB Strategy is not yet fully operational in most countries.

Although the funds available for TB control have increased enormously since 2002, reaching US$ 2.0 billion in 2007, inter ventions on the scale required by the Global Plan to Stop TB would cost an extra US$ 1.1 billion in 2007.

More than 26 million TB patients have been treated under DOTS, but the world’s TB control programmes narrowly missed the 2005 targets for case detection and cure, and are not yet on course to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.