Accountability to end TB: A global responsibility
A report, released by RESULTS UK, makes the case for accountability within the global TB response, highlighting the lack of progress against the 2018 global commitments and the role of accountability within these commitments.
RESULTS UK released a new advocacy report, Accountability to end TB: A global responsibility.
There is a need for accountability across the global health and
development sector to ensure that commitments made by global,
regional, national and subnational leaders are met. This need
for accountability is particularly important for the
world’s most deadly yet most overlooked infectious disease
- TB.
Building strong systems for TB requires not
just global commitment, but a promise to follow through with
genuine action and financing. For this, we need a robust system
of accountability to ensure that national, regional and global
leaders meet the promises they make if we are to end the TB
epidemic and see an end to preventable deaths from TB by
2030.
This report makes the case for accountability
within the global TB response, highlighting the lack of progress
against the 2018 global commitments and the role of
accountability within these commitments. The report recommends
for accountability to become a critical and fully-funded
workstream across the TB space, led by voices from TB-affected
communities and civil society.
The recommendations
proposed in this report are applicable to multilateral
organisations such as the World Health Organisation and the
Global Fund to Fights Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis; the United
Nations, and for national leaders.
As the TB
community and stakeholders prepare for the upcoming UN
High-Level Meeting on TB this year, the need for country-level
leadership and civil society engagement in being accountable for
progress on TB is paramount to end TB by 2030.
Access the report here.
Source:
RESULTS UK
