Key point -- Epidemiology -- Goals, tagets and indicatiors for TB control -- TB incidence, prevalence, and

mortality -- Improving measurement of progress towards the 2015 impact targets: the WHO Global Task Force on

TB Impact Measurement -- Case notifications -- Case detection rates -- Outcomes of treatment in DOTS

programmes -- Progress towards reaching targets for case detection and treatment success -- Strategy -- Data

reaported to WHO in 2008 -- DOTS expansion and enhancement -- Address TB/HIV, MDR-TB, and the needs of poor

and vulnerable populations - Contribute to health system strengthening based on primary health care -- Engage

all care proveders -- Empower people with TB, and communities through partnership -- Enable and promote

research -- Financing -- Data reported to WHO in 2008 -- NTP budgets, available funding and funding gaps --

Total costs of TB control -- Comparisons with the Global Plan -- Budgets and costs per patient -- Expenditures

compared with available funding and changes in the number of patients treated -- Global fund financing --

Funding gaps and the global financial crisis -- Conclusions -- Profiles of high-burden countries -- Methods --

The stop TB strategy, case reports, treatment outcmes and estimates of TB burden -- Surveys of tuberculosis

disease and availability of death registration data at WHO, by country and year --