Funding cut threat to global TB efforts - WHO On this year’s World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has called for urgent investment into TB care, lamenting that drastic and abrupt cuts in global health funding threaten to reverse decades of progress to combat the disease. WHO noted that TB remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease, responsible for over 1 million people annually bringing devastating impacts on families and communities. In a message to mark the day celebrated every 24th March, it noted that Global efforts to combat TB...