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US Should Pass PEPFAR Reauthorization Act To Combat TB
April 03, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Respiratory Disease News
Based on funding needs laid out in the Global Plan To Stop TB, 2006-2015, there is a $1 billion shortfall this year in the 90 countries in which 91% of TB cases occur, according to the Times. In 2006, the Global Plan did not meet its target of testing 1.6 million HIV-positive people for TB, the editorial says, adding that with "continued underfunding," future goals are unlikely to be met.
The U.S. can help the situation by passing a bill to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which would provide $4 billion over the next five years specifically for TB prevention and treatment, according to the editorial. "The reauthorization act should be passed quickly in its current form to provide important relief for TB and HIV/AIDS," the editorial says, adding that PEPFAR should work with the Global Plan to help meet the plan's goals.
Although TB might not be as prevalent in the U.S. as it is in other parts of the world, the disease "knows no borders and is a worldwide threat that must be acted on now," the editorial concludes.
Source-Kaiser Family Foundation
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