Funding to Combat Global Tuberculosis | CDC Grants

Despite being preventable and treatable, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious disease cause of death in the world, with an estimated 1.7 million TB deaths and 10.4 million new cases of TB in 2016. A fourth of the world’s population – some 2 billion – are infected with TB, with an estimated 10.4 million developing active TB disease each year. 4.3 million of these individuals go undiagnosed each year by health care providers and do not get the TB care and treatment they need. Drug-resistant TB poses another serious global public health threat.

TB is also the leading cause of death among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Addressing TB on a global scale is required to effectively protect the U.S. from this costly and deadly disease. The goal of this NOFO is to partner with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) to foster sustainable and effective systems to strengthen the delivery of quality TB services to end the global TB epidemic.

Through this NOFO, The Union is to strengthen and enhance TB services and TB control efforts in resource limited countries by promoting the wider use and adoption of recommended strategies and guidelines to interrupt TB transmission and to increase access to accurate diagnosis and effective treatment for TB and providing training and access to health officials, health professionals, and health care workers (HCWs) to the most current science, epidemiology, and clinical information on TB.