Target Tuberculosis

Our vision is a world free from TB

Our mission is to address the health, social and economic impact of the global TB epidemic amongst vulnerable and marginalised groups.

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See an overview of our Annual Report & Accounts or our Annual Review, full of stories and photos, to learn how we helped people affected by TB in 2010-2011.

What we do

We ensure people receive the right diagnosis, treatment and support to regain their health.

We tell people about TB so they know the symptoms and where to get help.

We train local people as community health volunteers.

Make a difference

We spend on average just £9 per person to deliver our life saving work.

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Get fit and get ready for the Target TB Loop, our great new cycle challenge from Brighton to Richmond and back, 7th -8th July. A scenic two day adventure with a luxury hotel stay too, all for free! Read more...

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TB is not a disease of the past

In fact, tuberculosis is right up there alongside malaria and HIV/AIDS, as one of the world's biggest killers. 9 million new cases emerge every year and 2 million people die.

In 2003 the World Health Organization declared TB 'a global emergency'. In the same year Target TB was set up as a direct response.

TB is preventable and curable

No one should be dying from TB. Further, finding, treating and supporting one person to make a full recovery from TB can stop them infecting up to 15 other people in one year. Our work has a huge multiplier effect.

What can you do?

There are many ways you can take a step closer to a world free from TB. See our Get Involved pages for inspiration!

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Community volunteers

To fight this killer disease you must take pills daily for six months. But when you are ill, weak, far from a clinic, and busy with work and family, it’s easy to forget or lose motivation.

That’s why we train volunteer carers in hundreds of small communities. They not only find people with symptoms and get them diagnosed, but they ensure that people take their TB medicine and help practically and emotionally too.

For someone with TB, even simple things like being fed rice by a carer and given life’s essentials such as matches, salt and cooking oil, can help you to stop worrying and recover properly. Many of the people we help to survive TB go on to become carers themselves.

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People we help

Santosh lives in a one room home in an Indian slum. She works hard making and selling puppets for a few rupees but last year Santosh became ill and started coughing up blood.

She became weak unable to cope. She’d never heard the facts about TB. It was only because one of our volunteer carers was knocking on doors in the slum one day that she found Santosh before it was too late. 

Now, not only is Santosh well and strong but we are using her hand-made puppets in our TB education sessions, held in the heart of the slum.  Hundreds of children and their families are learning how to prevent TB and where to get help.

Read more about people we help...

What we spend

We spend at least 85p in every pound on our life saving work in Africa and Asia.

But the other 15p works hard too - for every £1 we spend on Fundraising and Governance, we raise £7 more.

Read our Annual Review 2010-2011 online now...

See our Annual Accounts 2010-2011 online now...

Your money helps

£10 can provide transport and x-ray costs for someone with TB to access life-saving diagnosis and treatment in Zambia.

£21 can fund an awareness raising street-drama in Malawi where hundreds of people can learn vital facts about TB that could help save their lives.

£32 can enable a community volunteer to provide support to a person with TB through their entire course of treatment.

£346 can cover all the costs associated with running a specialist TB hospital in India for a whole month.