OPINION | Africa can improve TB treatment – all it needs is political will - There has been progress in some countries but it’s still a long way off from curtailing tuberculosis on the continent
globally who die from TB, even though they have less than a fifth of the world’s population.
The first commitment was to find and treat 40 million people with TB between 2018 and 2022, including 3.5 million children and 1.5 million people with drug-resistant TB. We’re 19% behind that overall goal, but 32% behind with children and 46% behind with drug-resistant TB. We now have new and shorter treatment regimens for TB and drug-resistant TB. Using these new technologies could make next year, when another UN high-level meeting on TB will convene, a different story.
The third and fourth commitments are about funding. Leaders pledged to spend a total of $13-billion annually on prevention, diagnosis and treatment by 2022. In 2021 only 42% of that yearly goal was spent. For TB research, $2-billion annually was pledged by 2022 but in 2021 research spending reached less than half that amount . Rolling out the new treatments and developing even better ones will require a stronger embrace of these commitments.
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