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The article discusses issues related to the planned control and elimination of tuberculosis from 2010 to 2050. The global control of tuberculosis faces several challenges, including the emergence of roughly 9.4 million new cases in 2008, as well as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. An overview of the Stop TB Strategy is presented. The article also enumerates possible strategies to reduce costs for patients with tuberculosis and their families and emphasizes the need to intensify research on new medical technologies for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

The article focuses on the developments in the global control efforts and challenges of tuberculosis, which is one of the common causes of death worldwide. It states that the world and some regions are on track to attain the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the incidence of tuberculosis and the Stop TB partnership target to reduce the 1990 mortality rates by half by 2015, except for Africa. It says that drug-resistant tuberculosis and scaling-up of tuberculosis remains challenging.