The Lancet  
Oct 22, 2011  Volume 378  Number 9801  p1439 – 1526
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Editorial
Global funding for infectious diseases: TB or not TB?
The Lancet

Preview
WHO’s sixteenth annual report on global tuberculosis control, released on Oct 11, presents detailed and encouraging statistics, carefully interwoven with words of caution about the perils of failing to maintain disease-specific funding. Taking a global view, the numbers are undoubtedly sobering, with 8·8 million new cases of tuberculosis estimated in 2010, and about 1·45 million deaths from tuberculosis across populations with and without HIV. In 2009, 9·7 million children are thought to have been orphaned by parental deaths caused by tuberculosis (whether or not accompanied by HIV).