Ending tuberculosis: European region set to miss the Sustainable Development Goals target for 2030

The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set the target of ending tuberculosis (TB) as a global public health threat by 2030. Based on the most recent surveillance data published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, the overall TB incidence in the 30 countries of the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) is low: the majority (24) of countries reported less than 10 TB cases per 100,000 population in 2021.