The fight against HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is being threatened by cuts in global health funding, according to "a report [.pdf] by leading European non-governmental health organizations," Reuters reports. In the report, "experts called on the European Union to step in to fill the gaps left by global donors to countries within and neighboring its borders," the news service notes. According to Reuters, "[c]ountries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have some of the world's fastest growing HIV epidemics," and "Europe is also home to the world's highest documented rates of drug-resistant TB" (Kelland, 9/18).