Abstract
What Research Is Needed to Stop TB? Introducing the TB Research Movement
Highlights
With 9.4 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths worldwide in 2009, tuberculosis (TB) constitutes an unacceptable burden of human suffering and loss [1]
Based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Stop TB Strategy, the Stop TB Partnership has developed the Global Plan to Stop TB 2011–2015, which lays out the activities to be achieved by 2015 towards elimination of TB by 2050 [3]
The Research Movement has mobilized a broad alliance of stakeholders involved in TB research and development, including scientists involved in basic, applied, and operational research, TB control managers and public health officers, donors and aid agencies, and patients and community representatives
Summary
With 9.4 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths worldwide in 2009, tuberculosis (TB) constitutes an unacceptable burden of human suffering and loss [1]. The strategy plan developed to address the main objectives of the Research Movement has two major components: (1) the analysis of global TB research funding (aimed at estimating the funding gap); and (2) the development of a global TB research roadmap (representing a consensus on global needs across the TB research spectrum). To this end, the Research Movement has mobilized a broad alliance of stakeholders involved in TB research and development, including scientists involved in basic, applied, and operational research, TB control managers and public health officers, donors and aid agencies, and patients and community representatives. Based on TAG Report 2010 [7], assuming that 2009 funding estimates are maintained throughout 2011–2015, and adjusting for inflation, the total funding gap for the 5 years (2011–2015) is estimated at US$6.4 billion
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