Cuts to US aid could significantly undermine global tuberculosis (TB) control efforts, according to Dr. Lucica Ditiu, director of the Stop TB Partnership. Interruptions in treatment may allow TB to mutate into more dangerous forms. The US funding historically ranged from $200 million to $250 million annually but is now threatened, causing health worker layoffs and breakdown of laboratory services. The World Health Organization has highlighted the risk of reversing progress in TB management, jeopardizing countless lives and threatening essential services across the highest burden countries.
Dangerous new forms of tuberculosis (TB) for which there is no treatment could emerge as a result of US aid cuts, a top doctor has warned.
The World Health Organization warned that abrupt funding cuts would cripple TB prevention and treatment efforts, reverse decades of progress, and endanger millions of lives.
Early reports to WHO from the 30 highest TB-burden countries confirm that funding withdrawals are already dismantling essential services, threatening the global fight against TB.
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