A World Health Organization strategy launched in 2014 setting the global agenda for ending the tuberculosis epidemic, distinct from the Stop TB Partnership's own separately maintained Global Plan to End TB, which lays out the partnership's complementary implementation and resourcing plan for pursuing the same strategy's goals. The End TB Strategy sets ambitious headline targets of reducing tuberculosis deaths by 95 percent and tuberculosis incidence by 90 percent before 2035, compared against a 2015 baseline, framed as part of the wider global effort the Stop TB Partnership itself has described as ultimately requiring a thousandfold reduction in the incidence of the disease to reach full elimination by 2050. Global progress against the strategy's own 2035 targets has fallen short of its intended pace, with assessments as of 2020 finding the world behind where the strategy's milestones called for it to be, underscoring how much further sustained national and international action still has to go to reach the targets WHO set in 2014.
Facts
Program StatusActive implementation phase; WHO monitors progress toward its milestones and 2035 targets 1 Sponsoring BodyWorld Health Organization; adopted by the World Health Assembly 1 Health GoalA world free of TB, with zero deaths, disease and suffering due to TB 1 Geographic Scope Measured ResultsTargets an 80 percent reduction in TB incidence and a 90 percent reduction in TB deaths by 2030, and elimination of catastrophic costs for TB-affected households 1 Classification
Program KindDisease Surveillance Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
Sources
1. WHO: The End TB Strategy
World Health Organization, World Health OrganizationStrategy overview, adoption year
WHO's post-2015 End TB Strategy, adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2014
Strategy overview, adopting body
adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2014
Strategy overview, scope statement
end the global TB epidemic
Vision statement
A world free of TB. Zero deaths, disease and suffering due to TB.
2030 targets section, target year
reduce TB incidence by 80%, TB deaths by 90%, and to eliminate catastrophic costs for TB-affected households by 2030
2030 targets section, incidence and mortality figures
reduce TB incidence by 80%, TB deaths by 90%, and to eliminate catastrophic costs for TB-affected households by 2030
Monitoring section
WHO will monitor the implementation of the strategy and evaluate progress towards the milestones and the 2035 targets
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