Abstract: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease and is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide. Globally, 10 million people worldwide will be living with TB in 2018, and the majority of people developing TB (about 90 percent) are adults, with a 2∶1 ratio of men and women. In 2018, 1.2 million people without HIV died from TB, and 251,000 people with HIV died from TB.TB research and development is critical to achieving the global TB targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the End TB Strategy. By 2025, major technological breakthroughs are needed to significantly accelerate the rate of decline in TB incidence, to achieve an average annual decline of 17 percent between 2025 and 2035.

Key words: World Health Organization, Tuberculosis, HIV associated with TB, Development