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Items tagged with Advocacy

Call for new membership: Communities Delegation to Unitaid Board (post)

The Communities Delegation to the Unitaid Board is currently inviting applications for membership from people living with HIV, affected by TB, malaria and those co-infected with HIV and HCV for the period 2023-2025. The Delegation would like to increase its representativity by recruiting additional members from under-represented countries and disease areas.

Why is the global threat of the TB pandemic continually neglected? (post)

TB is the second most infectious deadly disease after COVID-19, so why has it been met with political inertia? Vinny Wooding, Senior Parliamentary Advocacy Officer at RESULTS UK, discusses the burden of TB and the rapid action needed to address this global threat.

Next steps to attend the UN High-Level Meeting on TB in September 2023 (post)

The Stop TB Partnership provided the latest information related to the participation in the United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB on 22 September 2023.

Call for expressions of interest: TB Key and Vulnerable Populations constituency to the Stop TB Partnership Board (post)

The Stop TB Partnership Board called for expressions of interest to join the newly formed constituency of TB Key and Vulnerable Populations. It is foreseen that the new members will select their Board members and alternate Board members in Q3 2023.

UN High-Level Meeting must chart a path to TB elimination (post)

Political commitment will be key to eliminating TB as a public health challenge, says Austin Arinze Obiefuna (vice chair of the Stop TB Partnership and executive director of Afro Global Alliance) in an opinion published in The BMJ.

TB Political Declaration at risk with three weeks until the UN High-Level Meeting on TB (post)

The Stop TB Partnership and partners are calling on all member states to accelerate negotiations to ensure they reach consensus on a strong Political Declaration prior to the UN High-Level Meeting on TB on 22 September, without weakening any of the current targets or key commitments in the latest version. It would be an unprecedented failure if there is no outcome document agreed at the High-Level Meeting on TB in three weeks' time.

TB Vax ARM virtual meeting: Prioritizing TB R&D at the UNHLM on TB and beyond (post)

With the United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB just weeks away, the TB Vaccine Advocacy Roadmap (TB Vax ARM) will host a special meeting on TB research and development (R&D) advocacy in the run up to this milestone event.

TB community goes to New York (post)

The Stop TB Partnership announced several high-level events ahead of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB to be held on 22 September 2023 in New York City.

Drug shortage shows Modi’s TB eradication dream needs more than just ambition (post)

In 2018, India articulated its noble ambition to eliminate TB by 2025, five years before the global target. But news reports show we aren’t even close to that goal.

Stop TB Partnership launches its Coalition of leaders against TB initiative (post)

On 19 September 2023, the Stop TB Partnership launched its Coalition of leaders against TB initiative which is meant to lead global efforts to end TB at an event at United Nations Headquarters. The launch came at the start of the UN General Assembly high-level week.

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