Sixteen U.S. senators recently sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee urging increased funding for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC)’s domestic tuberculosis (TB) program. Funding for the domestic TB program has been stagnant for the past five years, leading to eroded funding for state TB control programs. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) wrote the letter, which urges the Appropriations Committee to “make eliminating TB in the U.S. a top priority for your FY19 appropriations bill by funding the CDC’s domestic TB program at $195.7 million in FY19 to support the full implementation of the National Action Plan (to Combat Multi-Drug Resistant TB), focus on addressing latent TB, and strengthen national, state and local efforts to identify, treat, and prevent TB.”
Sixteen Senators Urge Increased Domestic TB Funding
Last Reviewed: April 20, 2018
