World Tuberculosis Day 2024 theme “Yes! We can end TB” can be made a reality through concerted global efforts that advance detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis infection and disease

Professor Sir Ali Zumla acknowledges support from the Pan-African Network on Emerging and Re-Emerging Infections (PANDORA-ID-NET) funded by the EDCTP - the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme and is a UK NIHR senior investigator and a Mahathir Science Award and EU-EDCTP Pascoal Mocumbi Prize Laureate. Professor Adrian Martineau acknowledges support from Asthma + Lung UK (ref DPG23/40). Delia Goletti was partially supported by the Italian Ministry of Health (Ricerca Corrente, Linea 4) and INAIL (Istituto Nazionale Assicurazione Infortuni sul Lavoro; BRIC-2019 ID 27). TBVAC-HORIZON, funded by the European Union's HORIZON program under Grant No. 101080309. The funders had no impact on any decision-making regarding the manuscript.