The Stop TB Department

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Mission

Leadership in strategic & technical aspects of TB control worldwide, in order to reverse the epidemic and eventually eliminate TB.

Objectives

• Guide the global response to TB epidemic and facilitate partnerships (Stop TB Partnership, Global TB Drug Facility, Green Light Committee; TBTEAM; hosting 4 Working Groups & 3 sub-groups)
  
  
• Provide evidence-based norms, standards, policies
  
  
• Support Member States in adapting the Stop TB Strategy, within strengthened health systems
  
  
• Measure global progress; monitor & assess national prog. performance, financing & impact
  
  
• Enable progress across the continuum of TB research, linked within a wider health research strategy