The Hague, – KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation (KNCV), the Dutch NGO specialized in the fight against tuberculosis, will be the prime partner for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in their new five year flagship program ‘Challenge TB’. TB is still a deadly infectious disease, killing over 1.3 million people every year worldwide. In the next five years USAID will invest 525 million dollars through this program, to accelerate the global fight against TB.