Stop TB Partnership delivers treatments for 10 million people in six years

The WHO's 'Stop TB Partnership' announced today that its drug supply arm, the Global Drug Facility, has provided anti-TB drug treatments for 10 million people to 78 countries in the past six years. "This is an important milestone, because getting anti-TB drugs to people who need them and making sure they complete their treatment is the only way to break the back of the epidemic. It is also the best weapon we have for preventing a potentially massive new epidemic of drug-resistant TB", said Dr Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership. "Together with countries and partners we are moving steadily towards our target of treating 50 million TB patients between 2006 and 2015."