Don’t let past progress on fighting TB unravel in the face of COVID-19

Tuberculosis (TB), despite being preventable and curable, was the world’s leading infectious disease killer before the pandemic, which has only gotten worse this past year and will further worsen without counter measures. In 2019 alone, 1.4 million people—that included 230,000 children—had die...

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