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TBVI cooperates with other organizations worldwide to increase awareness, put tuberculosis on the (political) agenda, and find new tools – especially vaccines – to fight the disease.

Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation
Aeras is a non-profit Product Development Partnership dedicated to the development of effective TB vaccines that will be affordable, available and adopted worldwide.

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis is an interest group that sits in, and is recognised by, the UK parliament.  It is a cross party group that brings together MPs and peers with an interest in tackling this devastating and preventable disease. The group works with parliamentarians to raise the profile of this issue in Parliament and to improve policies to eradicate TB in the UK and globally.

EuMedNet-TB
The Euromediterranean Network against Tuberculosis (EuMedNet-TB) is a multi-institutional cooperative approach for upgrading research and control in the Mediterranean region of one of the most threatening human infectious diseases: tuberculosis.

Eurolac-TB
The European-Latin American-Caribbean-Tuberculosis (EurolacTB) consortium is a Non-Profit Organization that joins effort between scientists in Europe and Latin America to fight against tuberculosis.

European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
EDCTP aims to accelerate the development of new or improved drugs, vaccines and microbicides against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, with a focus on phase II and III clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa.

European Foundation Centre (EFC)
The EFC is an international association of foundations and corporate funders dedicated to:
•Creating an enabling legal and fiscal environment for foundations
•Documenting the foundation landscape
•Strengthening the infrastructure of the sector
•Promoting collaboration, both among foundations and between foundations and other actors

European Vaccine Initiative (EVI)
The European Vaccine Initiative - EEIG (EVI), formerly European Malaria Vaccine Initiative (EMVI), is a publicly funded, not-for-profit organisation whose primary aim is providing a mechanism for accelerated development of vaccines for poverty related diseases in Europe and Developing Countries as well as promoting affordability and accessibility of these vaccines in developing countries.

Fondation Mérieux
Fondation Mérieux is an independent foundation dedicated to controlling infectious diseases in developing countries. Its approach focuses on prevention and diagnosis and breaks the barriers that may exist between human and animal medicine, North and South, and all involved. It has four main goals: support scientific research, share knowledge, support health structures and support patients and their families.

Friends of the Global Fund Europe / Mes Amis du Fonds
Friends of the Global Fund Europe, launched in April 2005, under the high patronage of the President of French Republic, brings together European personalities, civil society representatives, non-governmental organizations, foundation and private sector managers, involved in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Global Health Advocates / Avocats Pour la Santé dans le Monde

Karolinska Institute Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
Research at the Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center focuses on the protective mechanisms of the immune response of people who become infected with illnesses such as Tuberculosis but who do not become ill. What is it in these people's immune defense that can successfully fight off infections and cancer? How is this different to the immune response of patients who develop the disease? The answer to these questions could lead to vaccine therapy. 
  
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation 
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation is a national and international center of expertise for TB control and a medical development organization. The organization is committed to reducing tuberculosis in the Netherlands and worldwide, in around forty countries.

MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières)
Médecins Sans Frontières is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters.

NIH Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU)
The NIH (National Institutes of Health)-funded Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU) at the Case Western Reserve University is a leader in interdisciplinary TB research. The TBRU aims not only to understand how M. tuberculosis infects, persists, and causes disease in humans, but also to translate that understanding into improving prevention, vaccines, diagnostics, and drug treatment for TB.

PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative
The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) is a global program of the international nonprofit organization PATH. Its mission is to accelerate the development of malaria vaccines and ensure their availability and accessibility in the developing world.

Ramon Areces Foundation / Fundacion Ramon Areces
The Ramon Areces Foundation is a non-profit organisation created in 1976 to broadly encourage scientific and technical research in Spain, as well as education and culture in general, values that the institution considers to be the main driving forces for progress and modernity in society. The institution carries out activities throughout the whole of Spain in the fields of life and material sciences, and social sciences and humanities, areas in which it promotes scientific research, contributes to training human resources and disseminates knowledge. The institution has its own programme for each of these areas: National competitions for research aid; scholarships for postgraduate studies abroad; and scientific, socio-economic and cultural dissemination programmes.

Results UK
RESULTS is a network of volunteers who work together in local groups to become effective advocates with the aim to end poverty

Sclavo Vaccines Association
Sclavo Vaccines Association (SVA) supports and accelerates the efforts of the European Union to develop safer and more effective innovative immunisation technologies with the aim of developing new preventive and therapeutic vaccines.

Stop TB Partnership
The Stop TB Partnership aims to eliminate TB as a public health problem and obtain a world free of TB. It comprises a network of international organizations, countries, donors from the public and private sectors, governmental and nongovernmental organizations and individuals. Its Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2013, a comprehensive assessment of the action and resources needed to implement the Stop TB strategy and make an impact on the global TB burden, can be read here.

TB Europe coalition
An informal advocacy alliance who share a commitment to raising awareness of tuberculosis and to increasing the political will to control the disease throughout the World Health Organisation Europe Region and worldwide.

The Brighton Collaboration
The Brighton Collaboration (Basel, Switzerland) is an international voluntary collaboration to facilitate the development, evaluation, and dissemination of high quality information about the safety of human vaccines.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a partnership between governments, civil society, private sector and affected communities dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
WHO regularly publishes factsheets, strategies, publications, statistics and other useful information on TB.