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Despite being preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) has been a deadly disease that continues to sicken and kill millions each year, mostly in poor and vulnerable populations in the world. COVID-19 has taken a devastating toll on the global TB response, threatening to reverse up to twelve years of progress. With support from the United States Agency for International Development, a planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has convened to organize a public workshop to explore innovations needed to meet the targets set in the World Health Organization's End TB Strategy by 2030.
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Despite being preventable and curable since the middle of the twentieth century, tuberculosis (TB) has long persisted as the world's deadliest infectious disease, with the communities most devastated by TB among the poorest and most vulnerable in the world. Only about half of people with TB receive...
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A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and conduct a two-part public workshop series to explore future innovations to meet the targets in the World Health Organization's End TB Strategy by 2030.
The public workshop series will feature invited presentations and discussions to explore the following questions:
- How to accelerate the development of affordable point-of-care tests for TB? What barriers or challenges have prevented the development of accessible point-of-care tests for TB for low and middle income countries?
- Improvements in the usual care for TB: Can a two-week, non-toxic treatment for drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB be achieved?
- How to rapidly use the TB platform, such as contact investigation, in low- to middle-income countries to address COVID-19 and other airborne infections to prevent future pandemics?
- How to ensure increased and sustained commitments to reach the UNHLM TB targets in high burden countries, despite the challenges from COVID-19?
The planning committee will organize the workshop series, develop the agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate or identify moderators for the discussions. The presentations and discussions at the workshop series will be summarized in a proceedings--in brief (Part One) and a full-length proceedings (Part Two), prepared by designated rapporteurs in accordance with institutional guidelines.
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United States Agency for International Development
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Claire Biffl
Charles Minicucci