Тhe World Health Organization and the Stop TB Partnership with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria convened a meeting of the Global Working Group on Public-Private Mix for TB Care and Prevention in Nairobi, Kenya on 2-4 November 2022.

TB deaths increase for a second year in a row and TB incidence rises for the first time in 20 years.

18 October 2022, Geneva |The political declaration of the 2018 United Nations High Level Meeting on tuberculosis (TB) includes commitments by member states to “ensuring strong and meaningful engagement of civil society and affected communities in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the tuberculosis response, within and beyond the health sector”. The 2020 UN Secretary-General progress report on TB includes priority recommendations to accelerate the TB response and reach targets through meaningful engagement of civil society and affected communities in the TB response. In view of the major developments in global public health, WHO is updating its guidance on community and civil society engagement to end TB.

14 October 2022 | Geneva: World Food Day this year is being commemorated in a world with increasing global food insecurity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and international conflicts. The World Food Programme estimates that globally, up to 828 million people do not have enough food and 50 million face emergency levels of hunger. Undernutrition is one of the most significant drivers of tuberculosis, accounting for an estimated 19% of incident TB in 2020, worldwide. People with undernutrition are three times more likely to develop TB disease and undernutrition is a common consequence of TB. Undernutrition also worsens TB treatment outcomes and increases the risk of dying from TB.

13 October 2022 | Geneva: A meeting of a subgroup of WHO’s Global Task Force on TB Impact Measurement was held in Geneva on 28–29 September to review draft content that has been developed for the new guidance on national TB prevalence surveys. The meeting brought together global experts in the design, implementation, analysis and/or reporting of national TB prevalence surveys, including people from national TB programmes, universities, national institutes and technical agencies, as well as independent consultants. Content related to screening and diagnostic algorithms, case definitions, diagnostic investigations, documents and data management, chest radiography and clinical management was discussed. Planned next steps include the update and finalization of the document with the targeted publication date in mid-2023.

The framework is meant to address the limited uptake of collaborative activities to reduce the burden of TB and comorbidities and to support countries in enabling access to people-centred care.

The Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) at the World Health Organization (WHO) released a draft document for public consultation 'WHO Evidence Considerations for Vaccine Policy Development (ECVP) for Tuberculosis vaccines intended for Adults and Adolescents'.

The World Health Organization releases updated guidelines and a new operational handbook on tests for the diagnosis of TB infection.

The World Health Organization (WHO)’s Global TB Program will conduct a free post-graduate course on the latest TB guidelines and recommendations on 13 October 2022 as part of the 53rd Union World Conference on Lung Health (Union Conference).

On 20 September 2022, the Government of Indonesia and the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted a high-level side event: 'Progress and multisectoral action towards achieving global targets to end TB' in the margins of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 77).