World: Climate change and TB, a topic that continues to heat up

Country: World Source: TB Alliance The Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health released a 17-point call to action at the start of the World Health Assembly (WHA) on May 18. The commission discussed many scientifically proven connections between climate change and health, including mental health, non-communicable diseases, and maternal and early childhood nutrition. These topics also have direct connections to tuberculosis. Case in point, new research commissioned by WHO and published in The Lancet provides a framework underlining and connecting all of these topics—climate change, TB, the WHA agenda items, and more. The researchers concluded that so many of the health impacts from climate change also worsen the TB pandemic, and that it is only a matter of time before climate change becomes a primary barrier to ending tuberculosis as a global health threat—if it hasn’t become one already. Dr. Maria Beumont, vice president for clinical and safety at TB Alliance, is available for interviews on the connections between TB and climate change and the need for more resources so that we can actually end TB in our lifetime. For more information: “ Climate change is a health crisis – and fixing it is a health opportunity ,” World Health Organization, May 2026. “ Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework ,” The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, March 2026. “ Environmental-demographic determinants associated with tuberculosis prevalence in seven African countries: an aggregated dataset analysis ,” eClinicalMedicine, February 2026. “ Call to action: climate change and health threats to the Pacific Islands ,” Tropical Medicine and Health, January 2026. “ Tuberculosis and the climate crisis in Latin America: a predicament of poverty, migration and displacement ,” BMJ Global Health, April 2025. ...

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