At the recent Delhi End TB Summit, Sudeshwar Singh, 40, a tuberculosis (TB) survivor, took to the stage to share his story, not just about the physical hardship of his diagnosis but also the stigma and fear that plagued his family and threatened to crush his spirit. Sudeshwar’s story, however, ends with a victory and a call for optimism for the fight against TB; he completed his treatment, and became an activist, raising TB awareness in his home state of Bihar. His journey is just one example of what fuels our current optimism around global efforts to address the TB epidemic. In fact, a year ago on World TB Day, we both blogged about TB control, one of us from New Delhi and the other from Washington DC—6,000 miles apart—and while challenges still exist and there is much to be done we both felt there was a new energy around the global efforts to address the TB epidemic. The cause for positivity was so elusive years ago, when the epidemic grew in complexity... — blog.wb.org/blogs