TB Targets
Can we reach the post-2015 Targets in China, South Africa and India?
Objective
The TB Targets project of TB MAC (TB Modelling and Analisis consortium) aims to evaluate, using 11 models, whether the scale-up of six (near-) existing interventions and their aggregate will be a sufficient effort to reach the intermediate targets set by the WHO ‘End TB strategy 2016-2015’ in three countries: South Africa, China and India.
The economic evaluation aims to explore whether this scale up is cost-effective, and secondly, what will be the most cost-effective way to achieve these targets (or at least to achieve the largest impact, should the targets not be achievable).
Description
The WHO ‘End TB strategy 2016-2035’ has a vision of a ‘world free of TB (zero deaths, disease or suffering due to TB)’ and the goal of ‘ending the global TB epidemic’ by 2035, defined as an annual incidence of <10 cases per 100,000 of population. Intermediate targets (TB incidence and mortality reduced by 50% and 75% respectively compared to 2015 levels) were proposed for 2025.
AIGHD Research Lead
Gabriela Gomez
Funders
TB MAC (a consortium funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)
Countries
South Africa
China
India