A new Political Declaration on Ending AIDS has been adopted by Member States at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, held in New York, United States of America, from 8 to 10 June 2016.

The World Health Organization’s Global TB Programme has developed operational guidance, The Essentials, for effective adaptation and implementation of the End TB Strategy.

Civil society organisations, advocates, policy makers and delegates planning to attend AIDS 2016 in Durban from 18-22 July 2016 are invited to submit a proposal to host a session in the TB-HIV Networking Zone in the Global Village.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific announces a call for applications for civil society organizations/community-based organizations/patient representatives to serve on the Regional Green Light Committee for the WHO Western Pacific Region (rGLC Western Pacific) 2016–2017.

The Communities Delegation to the UNITAID Board represents people living with and affected by HIV, TB and malaria and those co-infected with HIV and HCV, at the UNITAID Board and Committee level.

TB advocates congratulate Johns Hopkins University’s decision to enter negotiations with the Medicines Patent Pool regarding the licensing of worldwide non-exclusive rights to sutezolid.

A 5-year award of CA$85 million will support innovations in TB detection and care through the Stop TB Partnership's TB REACH initiative.

The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance released its final report and recommendations warning that antimicrobial-resistant infections such as drug-resistant tuberculosis could kill 10 million people a year by 2050 without an urgent expansion of resources and funds.

The Sentinel Project’s Advocacy Task Force has developed Rapid Clinical Advice on the use of new TB drugs bedaquiline and delamanid in children.

The Stop TB Partnership released a series of briefs on TB key populations recognizing that reaching everyone with services, diagnostics, treatment and care is essential to ending the TB epidemic. The briefs focus on children, miners, mobile populations, urban populations, prisoners, rural populations and people who use drugs.