Sameer Kumta is a senior program officer for tuberculosis at the Gates Foundation, a nonprofit foundation fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. He has a background in medicine, microbiology, and public health, and has worked extensively on HIV and TB.
Opinion: As G7 aid cuts threaten TB programs, affordable diagnostics developed in the global south offer a path forward for high-burden countries to help close the testing gap and save lives.
