The UN General Assembly (UNGA) High-level Meeting on the Fight Against Tuberculosis was held on Friday 22nd September on the theme, ‘Advancing science, finance and innovation, and their benefits, to urgently end the global tuberculosis epidemic, in particular by ensuring equitable access to prevention, testing, treatment and care’.
Download the UN Political Declaration on TB
Final Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis: (English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian)
Abridged Version of the Political Declaration by Stop TB Partnership: Download here.
Country Targets for the UN Political Declaration
Estimated country shares of global targets committed in the Political Declaration on TB: Download here.
Latest Updates
September
UNGA Week Recap (25th Sept): View Here.
News Alert on Passage of Political Declaration (22nd Sept): View Here.
Key UNHLM Updates (1st Sept). View Here.
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August
Breaking News: UN Political Declaration on TB Placed Under Silence Procedure. Learn more here.
Registration Alert: Registration for non-state actors to attend the HLM on TB is open until 11th August: Learn more here.
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July - PGA Invitation to Member States to Participate in the UN High-Level Meeting: Download here.
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June - Accreditation to the UN High-Level Meeting on TB is open until 19th June. Apply here.
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March - Accrediation for the Multi-stakeholder Hearing on TB taking place 8-9th May in New York is now live! CLICK HERE to register.
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February - Announcement of Passage of Modalities Resolution
Read our news alert here announcing the passage of the Modalities Resolution for the HLM on TB, which sets out the dates, agenda, logistics, and other critical details for the meeting. The Modalities resolution is available here.
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October - Announcement of co-facilitators
On 19th October, the President of the UN General Assembly announced the appointment of Poland and Uzbekistan as the co-facilitators of the 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on TB, led by H.E. Krzysztof Szczerski, Permanent Representative of Poland to the United Nations, and H.E. Bakhtiyor Ibragimov, Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan to the United Nations. The appointment letter announcing the co-facilitators can be found here.
It is expected that the dates, format, and other details for the meeting will be finalized by February 2023 through a Modalities Resolution. The Resolution for the 2018 HLM on TB can be found here.
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