The World Health Organization declared TB a "global health emergency" in 1993, and in 2006, the Stop TB Partnership developed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis that aims to save 14 million lives between its launch and 2015. A number of targets they have set are not likely to be achieved by 2015, mostly due to the increase in HIV-associated tuberculosis and the emergence of multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis. A tuberculosis classification system developed by the American Thoracic Society is used primarily in public health programs.
What group heads up the Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis? In what year did the WHO say tuberculosis was a "global health emergency"? How many lives did the Stop TB Partnership vow to save in the nine years between its start and 2015? Drug-resistant TB is one of the barriers to success of the Stop TB Partnership's initiative; what's the other other? What organization created a system to classify various types of TB?