About Us
  The Stop TB Partnership was established in 2000 to realize the goal of eliminating tuberculosis as a public health problem.

Our vision is a TB free world: the first children born this millennium will see tuberculosis eliminated in their lifetime.
  Highlights
 
Save the Date:

Union World Conference on Lung Health
16 to 20 October 2008
Paris, France

Roadmap to meetings
Conference Link
Link to Flyer
 
Partners Forum 2009
 
Partners' Directory
 
 
 
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WTBD Advocacy materials

About Tuberculosis, FAQ

About XDR-TB, FAQ

World TB Day - March 24th

World TB Day, falling on 24 March each year, is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of several million people each year, mostly in the third world. 24 March commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch astounded the scientific community by announcing that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. At the time of Koch's announcement in Berlin, TB was raging through Europe and the Americas, causing the death of one out of every seven people. Koch's discovery opened the way toward diagnosing and curing tuberculosis.