High-Level Meeting on tuberculosis of treating 40,000,000 people with the disease by 2022. The Accelerator will increase support to governments and local partners as part of a multisectoral approach to ending tuberculosis. (11) It is essential that existing funding for tuberculosis programs be allocated prudently, and with an emphasis on coordination, to ensure that efforts among United States agencies, partner nations, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, both faith-based and non-faith-based, the private sector and other actors are complementary and not duplicative. Improved data on tuberculosis, access to services, accountability, and program quality can help ensure funding gets to where it is most needed. (12) If progress does not accelerate, the global tuberculosis epidemic, particularly increasing cases of MDR–TB and XDR–TB, where many cases are not curable and vastly more costly to treat, could erase decades of progress in global efforts to end both tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, much of which has been achieved with United States investment. 3. United States Government actions to end tuberculosis Section 104B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151b–3(g) ) is amended by striking subsections (a) through (h) and inserting the following new subsections: (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Congress recognizes the continuing challenge of the international tuberculosis epidemic and the deadly impact of its continued existence. (2) The means exist to detect, treat, prevent, and cure tuberculosis to a large extent, but not enough to ensure ending it, due to inadequate means of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. (3) Absent accelerated efforts to address tuberculosis and increased domestic mobilization of resources from high-burden tuberculosis countries, targets set forth in the End TB Strategy will not be met. (b) Policy It is a major objective of the foreign assistance program of the United States to help end the global tuberculosis epidemic through actions