Palliative Care for Tuberculosis

In 2014, 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide including 400,000 co-infected with HIV. TB remains a major cause of death and suffering globally, in spite of the fact that it is supposed to be a curable disease. Drug resistant forms of TB have developed as a result of poor treatment compliance including multi-drug and extreme drug resistant forms that take longer to treat and have higher likelihoods of treatment failure. In 2010, at the initiation of the TB community, a partnership was formed between the WHO Stop TB Program, the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, and the Open Society Foundation's International Palliative Care Initiative (OSF/IPCI) to explore how to improve the ability of TB professionals to deliver palliative care to their patients.

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