NATAB has grown from Asam TB Association working in Sylhet district Bangladesh in 1948, to its present status of a national organization with branches in all 64 district of Bangladesh.
National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Bangladesh (NATAB) is a broad-based coalition of members of the civil society groups, originally a remnant of the Assam Bengal TB Association during the British Raj. This was subsequently turned in to National Anti TB association of Bangladesh after 1971.

With TB accounting for 26% of all avoidable death worldwide and being the single greatest infectious killer, an issue cannot be ignored. At a time when effective treatment and services are available, it is not acceptable for so many of world’s population to die of TB. In Bangladesh alone, 300,000 people are infected each year, and 70000 die from TB equaling one death from TB in every ten minute.