The meeting started with H. Getahun welcoming the task force members, confirmed attendance and announced the agreement of the Secretariat to accept Gerard de Vries as the Chair and Ibrahim Abubakar to become the vice-chair of the LTBI Taskforce. G. de Vries introduced the agenda items, to provide feedback on the recommendations from the Korea consultation meeting for the programmatic management of LTBI and an announcement of the UNITAID call for proposal, as an opportunity to discuss issues and identify next steps following on from these activities.