March 24 marks World Tuberculosis (TB) Day. It is important to reflect on the progress we have made in the fight against TB and the opportunities that lie ahead. Over the past few years, breakthroughs in research and development mean that treatment of drug-resistant TB has been shortened from 20 months to 6 months,1 and a pipeline of new treatment options means that some forms of drug-susceptible TB might be treatable with as little as 2 months of therapy.2 Additionally, affordable and accurate molecular diagnostics promise to revolutionise how we detect TB.