In January of 2025, the United States’ cut off billions of dollars in global health programs, including aid critical to the fight against tuberculosis (TB) programs. In 2023, USAID and the US government contributed a combined to address the worldwide TB crisis. If made permanent, these funding cuts could lead to 10.7 million additional TB illness and 2.2 million excess deaths across the next 6 years, a study projected. TB is the world’s number one infectious disease killer.
“Funding has always been an issue in the global fight against TB,” said Suvanand Sahu, MD, one of the study’s authors. “It has gotten more complicated now.”
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