TB is one of the world's deadliest pandemic diseases and is becoming increasingly resistant to current drugs. Only with faster, better and affordable cures for tuberculosis can we save millions of lives and overcome this global epidemic. TB kills 1.4 million people each year or more than one person every 25 seconds. Propelled by global poverty, the AIDS epidemic, and drug resistance, the global threat of TB is greater than ever. - See more at: http://www.tballiance.org/about/mission.php#sthash.xwHDQSYo.dpuf