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Global tuberculosis report 2025

Overview

TB remains a major global public health problem and progress in reducing the burden of disease falls far short of 2030 targets in most parts of the world. Nonetheless, after setbacks during the COVID-19 pandemic, most indicators are moving in the right direction and there are regional and country success stories. Changes in the funding landscape threaten this progress.

Achieving the goal of ending the global TB epidemic, to which all WHO and UN Member States have committed, requires further intensification of efforts. Following cuts in international donor funding in 2025, political commitment and domestic funding in high TB burden countries are more important than ever.

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This roadmap highlights the list of priority TB research questions and research areas which reflect current national information gaps for evidence-based TB response and informed decision making. It also provides detailed guidance on implementing the research roadmap; the monitoring and evaluation system for tracking implementation progress; mechanisms; systems for research output dissemination; using evidence generated for policy actions; and the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders. Click here to download.

Global tuberculosis report 2024

Overview

The WHO Global tuberculosis report 2024 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, at global, regional and country levels. This is done in the context of global TB commitments, strategies and targets.

The 2024 edition of the report is based primarily on data gathered by WHO from national ministries of health in annual rounds of data collection. In 2024, 193 countries and areas (out of 215) with more than 99% of the world’s population and TB cases reported data.

Please note that direct comparisons between estimates of TB disease burden in the latest report and previous reports are not appropriate. The most recent time-series of estimates are published in this global TB report.

Global TB reports from previous years can be found here

This roadmap highlights the list of priority TB research questions and research areas which reflect current national information gaps for evidence-based TB response and informed decision making. It also provides detailed guidance on implementing the research roadmap; the monitoring and evaluation system for tracking implementation progress; mechanisms; systems for research output dissemination; using evidence generated for policy actions; and the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders. Click here to download.