The Stop TB Partnership released the first edition of the newsletter on the progress and results achieved in the priority countries of the Global Fund’s Strategic Initiative to Find the Missing People with TB. Together with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Stop TB Partnership is an implementing partner of this Strategic Initiative through which 13 countries are supported to achieve the ambitious joint goal of finding an additional 1.5 million people with TB by the end of 2019.

The Stop TB Partnership has developed a series of documents containing data related to the UN High-Level Meeting on TB key targets and commitments for 2022 and outlined in the Political Declaration on TB.

IT'S TIME... to get ready for World TB Day 2019!

23 October 2018, The Hague – Today at the 2018 Union Conference, the Stop TB Partnership is issuing several documents to help advocates hold their leaders to account over the next few years for delivery of the targets contained in the Political Declaration from the recent historic UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB.

His Excellency, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health of South Africa and the Global TB Caucus won the 2018 Kochon Prize, while the Stop TB Partnership prize for Community Leadership and Mobilization went to MKUTA of Tanzania.

The UN High-Level Meeting (UN HLM) Political Declaration on TB contains a number of global targets endorsed by Heads of State, including targets to successfully diagnose and treat 40 million people with TB by 2022, including 3.5 million children with TB, and 1.5 million people with drug-resistant TB.

Highlights from the UN High-Level Meeting on TB and the events organized by the Stop TB Partnership and its partners.

The real job begins now - converting the Declaration into reality.

The O'Neill Institute, alongside the Stop TB Partnership, has released two new reports on TB, human rights, and the law ahead of the first-ever UN High-Level Meeting on TB. Both reports are focused on addressing pressing legal and human rights issues in the context of TB, namely coercion and criminalization, and migration.

Ahead of the UN High-Level Meeting on TB, global health and business leaders convened at the TB Innovation Summit on 25 September and pledged major commitments to end the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The Summit was co-hosted by the Stop TB Partnership, Johnson & Johnson, World Economic Forum, UN Foundation, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.