The TB Vaccine Accelerator Council: harnessing the power of vaccines to end the tuberculosis epidemic

Tuberculosis is one of the world's oldest and deadliest infectious diseases. Every year, more than 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis, and more than a million die from the disease, most of whom are adults and adolescents. 1 WHOGlobal tuberculosis report 2022. World Health Organization, Geneva2022 Google Scholar With close to half a million people contracting drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis annually, antimicrobial resistance risks making the disease even more deadly and incurable. A new agenda to control tuberculosisTuberculosis remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. An estimated global total of 10·6 million people fell ill with the disease and 1·6 million succumbed to it in 2021. The rise of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, together with slow development of new drugs and vaccines, co-infection with HIV, a partially effective vaccine, and stagnant funding, continue to impede the fight against this disease. Full-Text PDF