The TB response was and remains severely underfunded. The annual global need for TB Care and Prevention is US$22 billion, according to the Global Plan to End 2023-2030 and the 2023 UN Political Declaration to End TB.
There was $5.7 billion available in 2023, representing only 26% of the global need (WHO, 2024). Donor funding accounted for 62% of available TB funding in low-income countries in 2023 (WHO, 2024). TB funding cuts will have a devastating impact on the fight against tuberculosis and put millions of lives at risk.
Below is a compilation of resources related to recent funding cuts and their impact on our partners.
Stop TB News and Reports
Update on TB Funding Situation from Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership (7 March) - Link
Modelling Paper on the Impact of Funding Cuts (Preprint version - 5th March) - Download
Stop TB Partnership Report on the Impact of US Government Funding Halt on TB Responses in High TB Burden Countries (3rd March) - Download
Stop TB Partnership Global Impact Survey - Live Data - TB Service Disruptions and Impact - Perspectives from People affected by TB - Link
Partners News and Resources (note: the views expressed by external organizations linked below are their own)
Impact of US Funding Cuts and Stop Work Orders on TB Services and Research in South Africa - IJTLD Open
Center for Global Development - Analysis of Estimated Funding Cuts
TB Community Coordination Hub - This page includes resources for TB civil society partners and the results of a survey on the impact of funding cuts
Joint Statement By the WHO Director-General And Civil Society Task Force On Tuberculosis
TB Specific Impact Survey Initial Summary Report by the TB Community Coordination Hub
TB Impact Counter - modeling the impact of U.S. funding withdrawal on the TB response
A Deadly Equation: The Global Toll of US TB Funding Cuts
YOUNITE People to People Learning on US Stop Work Orders
TB Community Coordination Hub Statement
YOUNITE Global Demands Immediate Reversal of Stop-Work Order and Restoration of Global TB Funding
Friends of the Global Fight briefing note on How the Global Fund Makes America Stronger and Safer
GCTA Statement on USAID's Impact on People with TB and People Living with HIV/AIDS
TB People Pakistan - messages from survivor activists
Media Coverage
Tuberculosis is the world’s top infectious killer. Aid groups say Trump’s funding freezes will cause more deaths - CNN - March 30, 2025.
La tuberculosis es la principal causa infecciosa de muerte en el mundo. La congelación de fondos podría empeorar el escenario - CNN - March 30, 2025.
Massive retrogression: USAID cuts affects global morbidity and mortality - The BMJ - March 28, 2025.
A new step forward in the fight against labor in Vietnam - Vietnamnet (in Vietnamese) - March 26, 2025.
End of USAID leaves enormous funding shortfall for TB - The Lancet - March 24, 2025.
Funding Crunch Puts Years of Progress at Risk in Fight Against Tuberculosis - IPS pick up story - March 24, 2025.
Kiểm soát lao ở Việt Nam còn rất nhiều khó khăn - Vietnamese media outlet - March 24, 2025.
Ngày Thế giới phòng, chống lao năm 2025: Việt Nam cam kết, đầu tư, hành động để chấm dứt bệnh lao - Vietnam - March 24, 2025.
La tuberculosis, el otro enemigo mortal de los mineros de Pakistán - El Pais -March 24, 2025.
Nigeria intensifies fight to end TB by 2030 - Radio Nigeria - March 24, 2025.
Nigeria: U.S. Aid Cut Threatens TB Treatment in Nigeria - All Africa - March 24, 2025.
Amid funding crisis, Stop TB sounds the alarm on world’s deadliest infectious disease killer: Tuberculosis - CBS - March 21, 2025.
Amid funding crisis, Stop TB sounds the alarm on world’s deadliest infectious disease killer: Tuberculosis - AP (Associated Press) - March 21, 2025
Forscher befürchten Millionen Tuberkulose-Tote - Süddeutsche Zeitung - March 17, 2025.
Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally - The New York Times - March 11, 2025.
'Getting scary': US aid cuts undermine global fight against TB - AFP/Daily Mail, March 11, 2025.
USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’ | Tuberculosis | The Guardian - March 10, 2025
World Health Organization warns of possible tuberculosis surge because of USAID cuts - NBC News - March 09, 2025.
Huge Risk of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Wake of Abrupt US Funding Cuts - Health Policy Watch - March 06, 2025.
Some US cuts to global health programs reversed, groups say - Voice of America - March 06, 2025.
Aid freeze, waiver, termination, reversal: Stop TB awaits clarity from US - Devex - 05 March, 2025.
Massive $200 million TB research programme derailed by US funding cuts • Spotlight - March 4th, 2025.
Stop TB Partnership looks at downsizing after USAID cuts - Devex - March 04, 2025.
Some malaria, HIV, TB programme cuts reversed by US, groups say, - Reuters - March 02, 2025
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World, The New York Time - Feb 28, 2025
Services to millions of people collapse as USAID cuts contracts worldwide | Reuters - Feb 27, 2025
How Trump’s aid freeze is threatening tuberculosis programs | Devex - Feb 14, 2025.
Civil Society Groups in Kenya speak out about impact on the national TB response - - Feb 14, 2025.
USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts - CIDRAP, Feb 13, 2025.
Mitigation
Keep The Lights on Fundraising Campaign for Civil Society - Link
