Our vision is a world free from TB

Our mission is to address the health, social and economic impact of the global TB epidemic amongst vulnerable and marginalised groups.

What we do

 

We ensure people receive the right diagnosis, treatment and support to regain their health.


 We tell people about TB so they know the symptoms and where to get help.


 We train local people as community health volunteers

 

Make a difference

 

 

 

We spend on average just £9 per person to deliver our life saving work.

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See our impact

See our Annual Report & Accounts and Annual Review, for how we helped people affected by TB in 10-11.

TB is not a disease of the past

In fact, TB is right up there alongside malaria and HIV/AIDS, as one of the world's biggest killers. 9 million new cases emerge every year and 1.4 million people die. Yet they die needlessly, because TB is preventable and curable. 

In 2003 the World Health Organization declared TB 'a global emergency' and in the same year Target TB was set up as a direct response. We've achieved a lot since then.

Last year alone we made sure 21,204 people were tested for TB, we supported 7,054 people through treatment, helped 57,096 family members as their loved ones recovered, trained 7,135 local people as volunteer TB carers in their own communities and reached 4.6 million people with life saving health education.

TB is curable

No one should be dying from TB in this day and age. TB is also preventable. Curing one person from TB stops them infecting up to 15 other people in one year.

What can you do?

Take a step closer to a world free from TB. See our Get Involved pages.

Community volunteers


To fight this killer disease you must take pills daily for six months. But when you are ill, weak, far from a clinic, and busy with work and family, it’s easy to forget or lose motivation.

That’s why we train volunteer carers in hundreds of small communities.    Read more about our work...

People we help


Santosh lives in a one room home in an Indian slum. She works hard making and selling puppets for a few rupees but last year Santosh became ill and started coughing up blood.

She became weak unable to cope. She’d never heard the facts about TB. Read more about people we help...

 

 

 

 

 

What we spend

We spend at least 85p in every pound on our life saving work in Africa and Asia.

But the other 15p works hard too - for every £1 we spend on Fundraising and Governance, we raise £7 more.

 

Your money helps

£10 can provide transport and x-ray costs for someone with TB to access life-saving diagnosis and treatment in Zambia.

£21 can fund an awareness raising street-drama in Malawi where hundreds of people can learn vital facts about TB that could help save their lives.

£32 can enable a community volunteer to provide support to a person with TB through their entire course of treatment.

£346 can cover all the costs associated with running a specialist TB hospital in India for a whole month.