03/06/2025
From Nigeria to Pakistan, TB testing 'in a coma' after US aid cuts
A t a tense meeting in Nigeria's capital Abuja, health workers poured over drug registers and testing records to gauge whether US aid cuts would unravel years of painstaking work against tuberculosis in one of Africa's hardest hit countries. For several days in May, they brainstormed ways to limit the fallout from a halt to US funding for the TB Local Network (TB LON), which delivers screening, diagnosis and treatment. To tackle the spread of TB, you must identify cases and that is in a coma because of the aid cuts, said Ibrahim Umoru, coordinator of the African TB Coalition civil society network, who was at the Abuja meeting. This means more cases will be missed and disaster is looming....
