Following the success of the community engagement and participation approach for the 2018 UN High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB, it was agreed a similar approach will be crucial to the success of the 2023 UNHLM on TB. The Stop TB Partnership is seeking to select an organization or a consortium that will mobilize, engage, and coordinate communities and people affected by TB, support the advocacy agenda and messages of affected communities, and ensure a united civil society and community voice leading up to, during, and following the 2023 UNHLM on TB.

The Community Delegation to the Stop TB Partnership Board announced a call for applications for the position of the Constituency Focal Point (CFP). The role of CFP is central for the functioning of the Delegation, its work and relations with the constituency, other Delegations to the Stop TB Partnership Board and external partners.

The Community Advisory Panel (CAP) is a new mechanism aimed to provide advice to the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and its Expert Advisory Group (EAG). Accordingly, community representatives and other individuals with lived experience across a variety of disease areas within MPP’s broad mandate (i.e., HIV, viral hepatitis, TB, malaria, cancer, diabetes, COVID-19, and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health) are invited to apply.

Despite the conflict in Ukraine, TB-affected communities remain resilient - championing the national TB response.

NEW YORK / GENEVA, 21 September 2022 – The United States of America-hosted pledging conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria raised more than US$14.25 billion so far for the partnership’s work over the next three years. The conference in the margins of the UN General Assembly brought together more than 45 countries (including 18 Heads of State and Government), multilateral partners, private sector companies and civil society and community organizations. This support aims to save 20 million lives, avert 450 million new infections, and bring new hope for ending AIDS, TB and malaria. This investment will also strengthen health and community systems to leave no one behind and be resilient to future shocks.

On 20 September 2022, the Government of Indonesia and the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted a high-level side event: 'Progress and multisectoral action towards achieving global targets to end TB' in the margins of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 77).

• Researchers struggle to understand how teenagers experience tuberculosis (TB) treatment, and they haven’t done enough to ask, experts at last week’s 7th South African TB Conference, argued. 

• It’s a blind spot that leaves adolescents in the lurch at a time when changes in their immune systems and social lives also make this group more likely to become sick with TB. 

• TB, which is both preventable and treatable, was the leading cause of death for teens (ages 10 to 19) in South Africa between 2008 and 2018.

Fourteen months, seven facilities (in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal), two types of treatment (hundreds of pills), six months in hospital and two missed years of school.