On World TB Day, health advocates call on global leaders to commit to ending the disease
Washington, D.C. (March 22) – ACTION global health advocacy partnership is observing World Tuberculosis (TB) Day with new calls on world leaders to prioritize ending the disease. Caused by an airborne bacterium, TB is the world’s leading infectious disease killer, responsible for 1.7 million deaths per year and sickening more than 10 million in 2017.