90-(90)-90 the Tuberculosis Report for Heads of State and Governments: Global Plan to End TB 2016-2020

The Global Plan to End TB 2016–2020 calls for a paradigm shift in the approach to TB, demanding a scale-up of TB prevention and care services to unprecedented coverage levels. Without this paradigm shift, we cannot see the end of TB. Measuring progress towards the 90-(90)-90 targets will unveil the gaps at each stage of the TB care cascade, exposing the unacceptably high numbers of people who are being left behind and encouraging the mobilization of essential resources for countries to ensure the delivery of quality TB services.

This report is the first in a series produced by the Stop TB Partnership. The goal is to assess the status of country TB programmes in terms of the Global Plan’s 90-(90)-90 targets and to provide a baseline for monitoring progress over the next 5 years. Currently, the 30 high TB and drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) burden countries that account for almost 80% of the global burden exhibit the biggest gaps in the areas of diagnosis for TB and DR-TB, and the provision of preventive therapy (PT). Moreover, monitoring the uptake of TB services in key populations remains a challenge due to the limited availability and disaggregation of data.