On 7-8 February 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) will hold a technical consultation in Geneva on the theme “Digital health for the End TB Strategy: progress since 2015 and future perspectives”.

As countries and partners come together to commemorate World AIDS Day this year and call for intensified HIV prevention, preventing TB deaths among people living with HIV should remain firmly on the radar.

If 8% of persons with latent tuberculosis could be permanently protected each year, the global TB incidence in 2050 would be 14 times lower as the incidence in 2013, with no other intervention needed.

A new PLOS Medicine collection, Monitoring Universal Health Coverage, was launched on 22 September at the Rockefeller Foundation as a side event of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.