Statement of UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis Eric P. Goosby on the release of the President’s FY2017 budget

Following the presentation of the White House budget on February 9 that proposed a debilitating cut to tuberculosis responses, former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and now UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis Ambassador Eric P. Goosby counts the reasons that resources to fight TB matter now more than ever. The National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis recently put forward by the same administration now facing the real prospect of becoming no more “than words on a page.”