USAID signs Statement of Partnership with Health Ministry to combat TB in Bangladesh

Dhaka, Tuesday, June 25 –Today, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) committed to deepen their partnership to end Tuberculosis (TB) in Bangladesh. The new Statement of Partnership (SP) establishes a shared framework between the MoHFW and USAID to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis by 2022 through increasing case detection and treatment of all forms of TB. This partnership marks the latest example of USAID’s new model of partnership, the “Global Accelerator to End Tuberculosis,” which aims to catalyze investments and aid countries across the world and meet the UN target of treating 40 million people by 2022. Through their signature, the MoHFW also reaffirmed Bangladesh’s commitment to significantly reduce cases of TB by 2022. At the signing, USAID Mission Director Derrick Brown noted, “Today, by signing the Statement of Partnership, we at USAID recommit ourselves as a close partner of the Bangladesh government, as the country accelerates its efforts to achieve their targets by 2022. Bangladesh needs to detect and treat more than 1.5 million new TB cases over the next five years.  USAID Bangladesh will strongly collaborate with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in their mission of identifying, preventing, and treating all undetected forms of TB cases.”