Without further improvements in TB prevention, early diagnosis and treatment, some 8 million people will die of TB between now and 2015.

to act immediately to scale up the prevention and management of MDR-TB and start developing five-year national strategic plans for MDR-TB, embedded within national TB and health sector plans.

The data on TB and its prevention, care and control, included in the WHO 2011 global tuberculosis control report, were submitted to WHO by 198 countries.