[Need for correction of the normative-legal base for implementation of a federal program and programs of the subjects of the Russian Federation for Tuberculosis Prevention under the conditions of expected stabilization of the epidemic situation].

Evidence is provided for that there is a need for making additions and amendments in Federal Law No. 77 "On Prevention of the Prevalence of Tuberculosis in the Russian Federation". Amendments are aimed at improving the legal base to increase the financing of governmental programs, at organizing the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, at optimizing labor in specialized health care services. The authors propose to support the initiative of the Kursk Branch of the Russian Society of Phthisiologists for appealing to the State Duma of the Russian Federation to submit a legislative initiative in amending the law.