On 7 June 2021, the World Health Organization hosted a special high-level event on the side-lines of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS.

The 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, adopted by world leaders, commits to end HIV/AIDS and TB by 2030 and reverse the progress lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 16 June 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) will host a special high-level event to discuss key actions needed at global and country level to scale up TB prevention strategies and drive progress towards achieving the 2022 UN High-Level Meeting target on TB preventive treatment.

Following a series of three webinars on the topic of TB care for migrants in Europe, the TB Europe Coalition is conducting a short survey to identify the main challenges civil society faces in ensuring equitable access to TB and other healthcare services for migrants in the World Health Organization European Region.

Nearly a quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the pathogen that causes tuberculosis, but less than 15 percent of infected individuals develop the disease.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced $57 million will be dedicated to urgently needed tuberculosis (TB) recovery efforts in seven high burden countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, Tajikistan, and Ukraine. Alongside COVID-19, TB is the leading infectious disease killer, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, sickening ten million people and taking 1.4 million lives every year. To address the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating impact on TB services, this assistance will strengthen simultaneous testing for both TB and COVID-19, improve TB diagnosis services, and identify TB cases through contact investigations and community screenings. This commitment represents approximately 19 percent of USAID’s annual TB funding.

The World Health Organization will host a special high-level event on the side-lines of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS on 7 June 2021.

RESIST-TB released its May 2021 newsletter with the latest research publications on drug-resistant TB.

The Developed Country NGO Delegation to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) is seeking applications for its next Constituency Focal Point.

The Stop TB Partnership and USAID launch a new report assessing the governance of National TB Programmes in 22 countries which together account for over 70% of the global TB burden.