Call for contribution to the public consultation on the development of a global strategy for TB research and innovation
21 March 2019 | Geneva:The World Health Organization (WHO) has produced a draft Global Strategy for Tuberculosis (TB) Research and Innovation (Global Strategy) for consideration by the World Health Assembly (WHA) at its 73rd session. The draft Global Strategy is now available online for comment.
WHO invites comments or feedback from all stakeholders by email to [email protected], using this comment form through 8 May 2019.
TB is the leading infectious disease killer globally, posing
substantial economic burden on many of the poorest countries
around the globe. The WHO End TB Strategy adopted by Member
States in 2014 stipulates that major technological breakthroughs
are needed by 2025, in order to immediately accelerate the
reduction of TB incidence. The
Moscow Declaration to End TB, adopted by almost 120 national delegations, on 17 November
2017, called upon WHO, working in close cooperation with
partners, to develop Global Strategy for TB Research and
Innovation. Ministers of health and other high-level
participants committed to support its development. Furthermore,
as part of discussions on the
preparation for the United Nations General Assembly
high-level meeting on TB, the World Health Assembly at its 71st
session in May 2018 requested the Director-General to
develop, working in close collaboration with all relevant
partners, a Global Strategy for TB Research and Innovation,
“to make further progress in enhancing cooperation and
coordination in respect of tuberculosis research and
development.”
In response to this request, WHO prepared the current draft
Global Strategy drawing on consultation with scientists,
national TB programme managers and other officials from within
and beyond ministries of health, including ministries of science
and technology, and representatives of civil society and
affected communities, research funding
institutions and other TB research and innovation
stakeholders, through meetings organized in IVQ 2018 and 1Q
2019. All stakeholders are welcome to comment. Member States are
strongly encouraged to use this opportunity to communicate their
views to enable WHO to develop a Global Strategy that fully
reflects their needs and priorities. WHO will make available all
the comments received on its
website.
Based on the comments received on this draft, WHO will prepare
and present a second draft of the Global Strategy for WHO
regional offices, before it is submitted for consideration by
the Executive Board at its 146th session in January
2020.
Questions pertaining to this process can be addressed to
[email protected].
Source:
WHO
