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The upcoming UN general assembly resolution on TB must also benefit children

Anne K Detjen, Lindsay McKenna, Stephen M Graham, Ben J Marais, Farhana Amanullah
April 21, 2018, 2:55 p.m.

The United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB in September 2018 marks an unprecedented opportunity to strengthen countries' commitment to ending TB, but new resolutions should also benefit children.

In a comment published in The Lancet Global Health the Child and Adolescent TB Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership proposed specific targets for the countries to commit in relation to the childhood TB.


Source: The Lancet Global Health