Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

Drug-resistant TB is a major global public health problem that threatens the significant progress made in TB care and prevention in recent decades.

Drug-resistant TB is part of the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistant superbugs that do not respond to existing medications, resulting in fewer treatment options and increasing mortality rates for illnesses that would ordinarily be curable — including TB. Global development partners must move faster to contain this threat of antimicrobial resistance before it escalates to claim millions of lives around the world.