
The Department of Health {DOH} has launched the Philippine Acceleration Action Plan for Tuberculosis {PAAP-TB}, a multisectoral initiative to eradicate tuberculosis {TB} in the country by 2035. The DOH together with the Department of Social Welfare and Development {DSWD}, Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Labor and Employment {DOLE}, and Department of the Interior and Local Government {DILG}, through the PAAP-TB aims to provide wider access to health services, and improved education and public information, social protection, and labor protection to eradicate TB
by 2030.
Tuberculosis is a chronic communicable disease that comes second only to COVID-19 as a leading cause of mortality from a single infectious organism. According to the Global TB Report 2022, the disease accounted for 1.6 million deaths in 2021. In a
preliminary report from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) this year, TB continues to rank 11th among the causes of death in the Filipino population.

OIC Secretary of Health – Maria Rosario Singh-Vergeire delivers opening remarks onthe importance of TB eradication and building a healthy population