No one should die of Tuberculosis.
And by helping to change US policy at the 2025 TB Hill Day, you can help build a world where nobody does.
TB Deaths are caused by Injustice.
- Every 20 seconds, somewhere in the world someone dies of TB.
- Effectively diagnosing, treating, and preventing TB is a social justice issue!
- Tuberculosis transmission and progression are largely driven by social factors such as poor living conditions and poor nutrition.
- Roughly 2 in 5 patients with multidrug-resistant TB do not have access to proper testing to find out if their TB is a multidrug-resistant strain.
Support PIH in preventing undue TB deaths.
PIH has battled this inequity for more than two decades, by treating and preventing TB, its more severe, drug-resistant variants, and co-infections of HIV and TB in some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the world.
PIH’s community-based approach to care has resulted in some of the highest cure rates and lowest treatment default rates ever recorded.
Advocate to radically change the way Tuberculosis treatment is delivered worldwide!
In 2023, PIH provided tuberculosis care in nine countries, performing over 36,000 tests to screen patients with suspected TB and seeing 84% of PIH-supported TB patients successfully complete a full course of treatment. Countries include Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone
No one should die of TB due to lack of treatment and diagnosis of TB. Yet, an estimate of 1.3 million people will die of TB this year!
Caption for all photos: (top photo) Fynn Crooks, a senior community organizer for the Advocacy team, prepares members of Partners In Health’s Engage Training Institute at the U.S. Capitol for Hill Day, where they had more than 100 meetings set up with legislative staff members to talk about action they would like to see around the EndTB Act. (middle photo) The PIH team in Peru, known locally as Socios En Salud, loads equipment into a boat to provide TB screenings in Loreto, a remote region of the Amazon rainforest. (bottom photo) Samiha Reza, a Network Leadership Team Coach, and her team meet with legislative staff members for Democratic California House Representative Mark DeSaulnier on Monday at the Cannon building.