Tuberculosis has been eclipsed by HIV/AIDS as a focus of global attention and donor funding. It is the world's number one killer among infectious disease. Next month when the world leaders would gather at the United Nations they will be asked to change that by committing to end the tuberculosis pandemic by 2030. And to come up with USD 13 billion annually to achieve the goal. According to the PTI report the row between the United States and South Africa threatens to cast a pall over the first high-level meeting on tuberculosis to be held on the sidelines of the