India bears the world’s highest tuberculosis (TB) burden, accounting for 26% of global cases with an estimated 2.8 million incidence in 2023, even as national case notifications reached a historic high of 2.55 million. While the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program (NTEP) funds core clinical, diagnostic, and surveillance functions, and partnering non-profits drive community-level implementation, achieving the country's ambitious elimination goal requires addressing major funding gaps in critical social determinants.
The TIFA project supports the Government of India to combat TB and other global health security threats.
Since 2021, TIFA has funded multiple interventions across India. Recipients have supported the NTEP to gain insight into active case finding initiatives, operationalize models for differentiated care and pediatric TB non-sputum sample transportation, provide services to homeless and migrant populations in urban settings, and much more.
