Explanation:

• World Health Organization released its annual Global Tuberculosis Report for 2019.
• The world is not on track to reach the 2020 milestones of the End TB Strategy. For instance:
• The END TB strategy by the WHO aimed to reduce TB by 20 per cent from 2015-18. However, between 2015 and 2018, only 6.3 per cent TB cases showed a cumulative decline.
• The End TB Strategy milestone of 35 per cent decrease by 2020.
• Funding challenges:
• In 2019, the low- and middle-income countries, accounting for 97 per cent of reported TB cases, received a global funding of $6.8 billion. This amount is $3.3 billion less than the $10.1 billion estimated to be required in the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Plan to End TB 2018–2022. 
• Also, it is only just over half of the global target of at least US$ 13 billion per year by 2022 that was agreed at the UN high-level meeting on TB.
• Funding gap for TB research was US$ 1.2 billion in 2017.
• Under reporting of the cases: Of the 10 million new cases worldwide, 3 million cases went unreported to the authorities.  In India 1.99 million of the 2.69 million in India were reported.
•  26.9 per cent of the global TB burden in 2018 was from India. In 2017, the figure was 27 per cent.
• Fall in total TB incidence rate: The total TB incidence rate in India has decreased by 50,000 patients over the past one year. In 2017, India had 27.4 lakh TB patients, which came down to 26.9 lakh in 2018.
• TB incidence rate in India dropped from almost 300 per lakh population in 2000 to 199/lakh in 2018, as compared to a global decline from 170/lakh to 132/lakh