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Innovations for Tackling Tuberculosis in the Time of COVID-19: A Two-Part Workshop Series

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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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