November 2015
Last week, a letter coordinated by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and ATS and signed by over 650 TB clinicians and scientists was sent to President Obama urging the release of the National Action Plan to Combat Drug Resistant TB. The plan was drafted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in coordination with USAID, CDC, and NIAID, and is now in review with senior administration officials. The letter states: "Global leadership to respond to drug-resistant tuberculosis is long overdue. A plan is needed now, complete with research and development and programmatic goals and outcomes and a proposed budget, beginning in fiscal year 2017, that will ensure its implementation and success. We urge you to publicly release the National Action Plan to Combat Drug Resistant TB as soon as possible to begin to halt the continued global spread of this deadly disease."
