Invest into new, effective TB vaccines to save lives!
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world, killing 1.5 million each year. Around 10 million people develop TB disease annually and 4,000 die of TB every day. TB is also one of the major contributors to the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) both on the rise. MDR-TB and XDR-TB are a particular concern to Europe as approximately 20% of all new TB c