A GLOBAL CALL

Find all TB to stop TB 

Unless we stop missing TB cases, we cannot end TB

Treatment is prevention: Find all TB → treat all TB → prevent all TB → End TB

One of the key actions enshrined in the WHO Director General’s flagship initiative to Find.Treat.All (first launched in 2018) is to replace microscopy with upfront rapid molecular diagnostic test by 2027, because microscopy underperforms in diagnosing TB, and thereby misses TB cases. More importantly, the WHO initiative backed by the Stop TB Partnership and The Global Fund, calls for a people-centred and rights-based TB response, through community-led and gender-transformative interventions. 

But the progress is way off the mark. Almost 7 out of every 10 people with presumptive TB worldwide were not diagnosed by a molecular test in 2021, and TB response is far from being people centred even today.

Early and accurate TB diagnosis is not only a critical gateway to TB care pathway, but also a public health and human rights imperative. It helps stop the spread of TB infection as well as reduces unnecessary human suffering and risk of untimely deaths due to TB.

 Bringing “lab to the people” (and not people to the lab) is the first vital step towards finding TB. If we fail to do this, we will keep missing TB cases despite having the best of tools in the labs.

 Additionally, we must ensure that the full cascade of TB care services is people centred.

 Call to find all TB to stop TB, has 1 key ask and 2 actions:

 Key ask: Stop missing TB cases

 Key actions

1) 100% replacement of smear microscopy with WHO recommended molecular tests as soon as possible, along with a paradigm shift from a lab-centric to a fundamentally people-centric model to find TB, leaving no one behind

2) Find the missing millions! Screen everyone (and not just those with TB symptoms) with WHO recommended screening tools and confirm those with presumptive TB using molecular tests

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If we act upon the key ask, imagine the difference it will make when no TB case is missed, and all people with TB are brought in the care fold in a rights-based manner. A people-centric approach to find all TB, treat all TB, and prevent TB is critical to end TB.

Let’s make this difference, everywhere! Please consider endorsing.

Organisational endorsements

(alphabetically listed, as on 25th November 2023, 9pm IST)

• 5 FM Radio, Lusaka, Zambia
• 99.9 KIss FM, Abuja, Nigeria
  
• ABP, Kolkata, India
  
• ABF, Gonda, India
• Action for Rural Development Society, Nalgonda, Deverkonda, India
• Action Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
• ADINKES (Indonesia Association of Sub National Health Authorities), Jakarta, Indonesia
• ADINKES, Jambi, Indonesia
• Ageing Nepal
  
• AllMediaLink.eu, South Africa
  
• Alneelain University Faculty of Medicine, Khartoum, Sudan
  
• Americas TB Coalition, San Diego, USA
  
• Asha Parivar
• Asha Trust
• Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT)
  
• Asia Pacific Media Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT Media)
  
• ASRA Samajik Lok Kalyan Samiti, Dewas, India
• Association For Promotion Sustainable Development, India 
  
• Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication, Bangladesh
  
• Blossom Trust, Virudhunagar, India 
  
• Center for Media and Information Literacy, Colombo, Sri Lanka
  
• Central Kalimantan Provincial Health Office, Palangkaraya, Indonesia
• Cheyutha Rural Womens Development Society, Warangal, India
  
• CNS (Citizen News Service)
• COMHAD UK
• Community Development Society, Nepal
  
• Community Rural Development Society (CRDS), Nepal
  
• Dalai Lama Foundation, Nandurbar District Maharashtra, India
• Deepti Bhuban, Bangladesh
  
• Department of Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, Chandigarh, India
• Desmond Tutu TB Centre CAB, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
• Dinjpur Notun Aalo Society, Islampur, Uttar Dinjpur, West Bengal, India
  
• District TB Centre, Bikaner, India
• District TB Office, National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) Jaintia Hills, Jowai, Meghalaya, India
  
• DIVA for Equality, Fiji
  
• DLN, Pathankot, India
  
• Empower India
  
• Era University, Lucknow, India
  
• Gautam Budda Jagriti Society, UP, India
  
• Gender Equality Talks (GETalks)
• Global Alliance for Human Rights (GAHR India)
  
• Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA)
  
• Global Coalition of TB Advocates (GCTA), India
• Grambangla Unnayan Committee, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Gramin Yuva Evam Bal Vikas Parishad, Fatehpur, India
  
• Health and Beyond Foundation, Delhi, India
• Health Business magazine, Kenya
  
• Health Digest Journal Myanmar
  
• Health Writers Forum
• Health Journalists Network of Uganda (HEJNU) 
  
• Health TV Online, Nepal
  
• Humanitarian Information facilitation centre ( HIFC), Zimbabwe
  
• Indian Network For People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+), Chennai, India
• Indian Society Against Smoking
• International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)
  
• IZAD, Patna, India
  
• Janakalyan Pratisthan, India
  
• JICL Thailand
• Journal Agropasteur/ www.agropasteur.com, Dakar, Sénégal
• Journalists against TB, Mysuru, India
• Kanpur Queer Welfare Foundation, Kanpur, India
• KBC Kisumu, Kenya
  
• Keerthi Foundation, Kurnool, India
  
• Kenya Environment and Science Journalists Association (KENSJA)
  
• Krityanand UNESCO Club, Jamshedpur, India
  
• Kuboresha-Africa, Uganda
  
• Kwayedza media, Zimbabwe
• Liga Contra El Cancer Cajamarca, Peru
• Lok Prerna, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India
• Mamta Samajik Sanstha, Dehradun, India
• Manav Kalyan, Silchar, India
• Meera Foundation, Madurai, India
  
• Microcare laboratory and Tuberculosis Research Center, Surat, India
  
• Molbio Diagnostics, India
  
• MS News, Uganda
  
• National Alliance For Tobacco Control, Dili, Timor Leste
• National Campaign for Sustainable Development Nepal
  
• National Center for Health Promotion, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• National Coalition For Education (NCE), India
  
• National Coalition of People Living With HIV in India 
  
• National Coalition of People Living with HIV in India (NCPI+)
  
• Navaspoorthi Sanga, Vijayapur, India
• Nepal Forum of Science Journalists (NFSJ), Kathmandu, Nepal
• Network of Maharashtra by people living with HIV/AIDS (NMP+)
• Pachhat Varg Vikas Mandal, Petlad, India
  
• Pakistan Rural Workers Social Welfare Organization
• Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Studies in Rural Development (PISRD), Lucknow. India
• Parivartan Trust, Meghraj, India
• PATH, Hyderabad, India
• PATH, Mumbai, India
• People's Health Organisation (PHO), Mumbai, India
• Rainbow TB Forum Network, Virudhunagar, India
  
• Rajnees Live, Bhinmal, India
• Reigners in Life (RIL), Chililabombwe, Zambia
• Respiratory Society of Kenya
  
• Rural Organisation for Social and Education Trust ( ROSE Trust), Ariyalur, India
• Sahara Aalhad, Pune, India
  
• Sangeetha Sri Vidya Vydya Women Welfare Society, Konaseema, Andhra Pradesh, India
• SAVI News Africa, Nigeria
• SCODE, Vietnam
  
• Sentra Laktasi Indodesia (SELASI), Jakarta, Indonesia
• Shree Devi Mahila Sewa Sahay Sangh, Kalaburagi, India
  
• SMLS Trust, Amalapuram, India
  
• Social Awareness and Development Organisation for Women (SAADOW), Natham, India
  
• Social Reporters News Service (SRNS), Benin City, Nigeria
  
• SPI, Delhi, India
• Sri Venkateswara Anadha Seva Sadan (SVASS), Chittoor, India
  
• Srinivasa Heart Centre, Warangal, India
  
• Sukaar Welfare Organization, Umerkot, Pakistan
  
• Suno India
  
• TB Alert India, Chandigarh, India
• TB Mukt Vahini, Patna, India
  
• TB People (India)
  
• The Health Times Africa, Kampala, Uganda
  
• The Shillong Times, India
  
• Times of India Plus ( Digital) Times group
  
• Training, Educational and Environmental Organisation, Nellore, India
  
• TWEET Foundation (India)
  
• UNISC International, Fukuoka, Japan
• Vaigai Network for people Living with HIV/AIDS (VNP+), Madurai, India
• Voice Of The Voiceless, Paynesville, Liberia
• Vote For Health campaign
• WCSF Charityspirit Foundation, Jharkhand, India
  
• Women & Child Welfare Society, Cuttack, Odisha
  
• Women Together Edu-cultural Center, Kiambu, Kenya
• Women Working Group (WWG), Indonesia
  
• World Mission, Kalaburagi, India
  
• Wote Youth Development Projects, Kenya
  
• Zimbabwe National Network of People living with HIV (ZNNP+)
  

Individual endorsements

• Abdul Azeem, Bigtec lab, Bengaluru, India
• Abhay Chandra Mitra, National TB Elimination Programme, Lucknow, India
  
• Abhijit Kumar Das, Dinjpur Notun Aalo Society, Islampur, Uttar Dinjpur, West Bengal, India 
• Abraham KK, Indian Network For People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+), Chennai, India
• AKM Maksud, Grambangla Unnayan Committee, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Alberto Colorado, Americas TB Coalition, San Diego, USA
  
• Aman Shukla, TWEET Foundation (India)
  
• Amanda Chand, Action Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Amit Kumar Bom, Action Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Ana Claudia Campana, Molbio Diagnostics, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Antonio Gonzalo Lopez Lopez, WABIP, Cochabamba, Bolivia
• Anuj Pandey, Kanpur Queer Welfare Foundation, Kanpur, India
• Anuradha Mascarenhas, The Indian Express, Pune, India
  
• Archana Oinam, Global Coalition of TB Advocates (GCTA), India
• Arumugam Sankar, Empower India
  
• Ashok Kumar, World Mission, Kalaburagi, India
  
• Ashok Ramsarup, Allmedialink.eu, South Africa
  
• Ayyappan, Vaigai Network for people Living with HIV/AIDS (VNP+), Madurai, India
• B. Mareeswari, Rainbow TB Forum Network, Chingleput, India 
  
• Babacar Sene, Journalist, Journal Agropasteur/ www.agropasteur.com, Dakar, Sénégal
• Bachir C Macuácua, NTP - Mozambique, Maputo, Mozambique
• Betsy Suero Skipp, RESULTS, Miami, USA
  
• Beverly L. Longid, Katribu Indigenous Peoples Alliance - Philippines
  
• Bharat Shah, Action Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Bharathi Ghanashyam, senior journalist and founder, Journalists against TB, Mysuru, India
• Bobby Ramakant, APCAT Media, Global AMR Media Alliance, and CNS
  
• Brijesh Dubey, Global Alliance for Human Rights, Rajasthan, India
• Carolyne Oyugi, Kenya Environment and Science Journalists Association (KENSJA)
  
• Catherine Mwauyakufa, journalist, Zimbabwe 
  
• Celina, Global Alliance for Human Rights (GAHR India)
  
• Chaitali Biswas, senior journalist, ABP, Kolkata, India
  
• Charles Sandy, AUDA-NEPAD, Midrand, South Africa
  
• Christine E Young, Santa Cruz, USA
  
• Daxa Vitthal Patel, former President, National Coalition of People Living with HIV in India (NCPI+) and Secretary TB People (India)
  
• Dedeh Barr Kesselly, Voice Of The Voiceless, Paynesville, Liberia
• Dipak Ghising, Community Development Society, Nepal
  
• Dishon Washington Onditi, MMU Radio, Nairobi, Kenya
• Dr Chakaya Jeremiah, Respiratory Society of Kenya
  
• Dr Chandra Shekhar Modi, District TB Centre, Bikaner, India
• Dr Darivianca E Laloo, Molbio Diagnostics, India
  
• Dr Dhanji Rajani, Microcare laboratory and Tuberculosis Research Center, Surat, India
  
• Dr EBV Laloo, District TB Office, NTEP Jaintia Hills, Jowai, Meghalaya, India
  
• Dr Elfi Yennie, MARS, ADINKES, Jambi, Indonesia
• Dr Indra, MPPM, IDI Agam, Padang, Indonesia
• Dr Ishwar Gilada, People's Health Organisation (PHO)
  
• Dr Lily S Sulistyowati, Sentra Laktasi Indodesia (SELASI), Jakarta, Indonesia
• Dr PS Sarma, SMLS Trust, Amalapuram, India
  
• Dr Rajesh Kumar Sood, National TB Elimination Programme, Dharamshala, India
  
• Dr Sameera D, PATH, Hyderabad, India
• Dr Sandeep Pandey, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee (2002) and visiting faculty, IITs and IIMs
• Dr Sangeeta Sharma, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (NITRD), New Delhi, India
• Dr Shiv Pujan Pandey, Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Studies in Rural Development (PISRD), Lucknow. India
• Dr Smita Rajani, Microcare laboratory and Tuberculosis Research Center, Surat, India
  
• Dr Srinivas Ramaka, Srinivasa Heart Centre, Warangal, India
  
• Dr Tara Singh Bam, Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT)
  
• Dr Tin Maung Htwe, Health Digest Journal Myanmar
  
• Dr Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Krityanand UNESCO Club, Jamshedpur, India
  
• Dr Rajesh Bhaskar, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, Chandigarh, India
• Dr Rajneesh Tripathi, PATH, Lucknow, India
• Dr Rana J Singh, The Union, Delhi, India
• Dr SN Misra, Health and Beyond Foundation, Delhi, India
• Dr Uday Bodhankar, COMHAD UK, Nagpur, India
  
• Dr Vithal Prasad Myneedu, Nepalgunj Medical College, Nepalgunj, Nepal
• Durga Madhab Panda, Janakalyan Pratisthan, India
  
• DVL Padma Priya, Suno India 
  
• Elizabeth Selhore, Sahara Aalhad, India
  
• Esther Nakkazi, Health Journalists Network Uganda (HEJNU)
  
• Godfrey Mbulelo Tabata, Desmond Tutu TB Centre CAB, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
• Golden Yalenga, 5 FM Radio, Lusaka, Zambia
• Grace Wafubwa, KBC Kisumu
• Hector Mayoral Reyes, Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France 
  
• Isaac Omo-Ehiabhi Eranga, Social Reporters News Service, Benin City, Nigeria
  
• Jin Tanaka, UNISC International, Fukuoka, Japan
• Jitendra Kumar Dwivedi, ABF, India
• Jitendra Kumar Verma, WCSF Charityspirit Foundation, Jharkhand, India
  
• John K Thirunavukkarasu, Rural Organisation for Social and Education Trust ( ROSE TRUST), Ariyalur, India
  
• Jordan Kaisi, Reigners in Life (RIL), Chililabombwe, Zambia
• Jose Andrelin S. dela Cruz, Philippine Society of SRH Nurses Inc., Quezon City, Philippines
• Joseph Mount Singh, Mamta Samajik Sanstha, Dehradun, India
• Joyce Namugambe, MS News Uganda
• Judith Akolo, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC)
• Kalpana Acharya, Health TV Online, Nepal
• Kalpesh B Thaker, Microcare laboratory and Tuberculosis Research Center, Surat, India
• Kasturi, Shree Devi Mahila Sewa Sahay Sangh, Kalaburagi, India 
• Kathy Manase, Humanitarian Information facilitation centre ( HIFC), Zimbabwe
• Lalit kumar, Rajnees Live, Bhinmal, India
• Lata Mishra, Times of India Plus ( Digital) Times group, Mumbai, India
• Laurinda Verissima Soares, Media Swasta (Radio Lian Ba Dame UNPAZ), Dili, Timor-Leste
• Lwin Lwin Thant, Myanmar/ UK
• Lynsey Stewart-Isherwood, Wits Diagnostic Innovation Hub, South Africa
• Madhav kr Das, Lok Prerna, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India
• Manoj Pardeshi, National Coalition of People Living With HIV in India 
• Meenu Khare, Akashvani Lucknow, India
• Mercy Annapoorani, Blossom Trust, Virudhunagar, India
• Michael Sheshi, KNCV Nigeria
• Mokamatam Madhu Babu, Andhra Jyothi Telugu Daily, India
• Muchaneta Chimuka, Kwayedza media, Zimbabwe
• Muhammad Alanjiro, Integral University, Lucknow, India
• Musenze John, New Vision (media), Uganda
• Nandita Venkatesan, Live Mint, India
• Ngo Thi Lan Phuong, SCODE, Vietnam
• Niraj Kumar Sinha, TB Alert India, Chandigarh, India
• Nirasha Piyawadani, Center for Media and Information Literacy, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Noelene, DIVA for Equality, Fiji
• Nowraj, Training, Educational Environmental Org, Nellore, India
• Nurul Islam Hasib, Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh 
• Obakeng Masondo, Medical Practitioner, Pretoria, South Africa
• Ode Uduu, Data journalist, Dataphyte, Nigeria
• Omer Elgaili Yousif Elhag , Alneelain University Faculty of Medicine, Khartoum, Sudan
• Padma Shri Patricia Mukhim, Editor, The Shillong Times, India
• Pedro Anibal Leon Alvarez, Liga Contra El Cancer Cajamarca, Peru
• Peter Owiti, Wote Youth Development Projects CBO, Wote Makueni, Kenya
• Piseth Chhour, National Center for Health Promotion, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Prakash Chandra Mishra, Community Rural Development Society (CRDS), Nepal
• Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Savinewsafrica.ng, Nigeria
• Professor (Dr) Guy Marks, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)
• Professor (Dr) Pooja Ramakant, Editor-in-Chief, Indian Journal of Endocrine Surgery and Research
• Professor (Dr) Rajendra Prasad, former Director, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi, and Era University, India
• Professor (Dr) Surya Kant, Respiratory Medicine Department, King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow, India and former President of 1) Indian Chest Society, 2) National College of Chest Physicians, & 3) Indian College of Allergy, Asthma and Applied Immunology
  
• Punit, DLN, Pathankot, India
  
• Qi Tan, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
• Rachel Thomas, IANS, India
• Rahab Mwaniki, Women Together Edu-cultural Center, Kiambu, Kenya
• Rahul Dwivedi, journalist, UP, India
• Raja Rinku, IZAD, Patna, India
• Rama Kant Rai, National Coalition For Education (NCE)
• Richa Maheshwari, Global Coalition of TB Advocates (GCTA), India
• Rita Widiadana, APCAT Media, Indonesia
• Roger Paul Kamugasha, Kuboresha-Africa and The Health Times-Africa, Uganda
• Sabita Karapan, Vital Strategies, Singapore 
• Samwel Doe Ouma, Health Business magazine, Kenya
• Sancho Belito Fernandes, National Alliance For Tobacco Control, Dili, Timor Leste
• Shabbir Ahmad, Navaspoorthi Sanga, Vijayapur, India
• Shefin B., JNTBGRI, Trivandrum, India
• Shobha Shukla, APCAT Media, Global AMR Media Alliance, and CNS
• Shridhar Pandey, Gautam Budda Jagriti Society, UP, India
• Snehansu Bhaduri, Kolkata, India
• Sonai Muthu, Social Awareness and Development Organisation for Women (SAADOW), Natham, India
• Subrat Mohanty, REACH, India
• Sudeshwar Kumar Singh, TB Mukt Vahini, Patna, India
• Sumit Mitra, Molbio Diagnostics, Goa, India
• Surabhi Agarwal, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India
• Suyuti Syamsul, Central Kalimantan Provincial Health Office, Palangkaraya, Indonesia
• Swapna Majumdar, Journalist, New Delhi, India 
• Tariro Kutadza, Zimbabwe National Network of people living with HIV (ZNNP+)
• Tejaswi Raste, Healis Sekhsaria institute for Public Health, Mumbai, India 
• Vaishnavi Jondhale, PATH, Mumbai, India
• Varanasi Mohan, Cheyutha Rural Womens Development Society, Warangal, India
• Vikas Rathod, Ujjain, India
  
• Yanri Wijayanti Subronto, MD, PhD, internist, ADINKES, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Yecenu Sasetu, 99.9 KIss FM, Abuja, Nigeria