Overview of Progress on finding the Missing People with TB: On track to find 1.5 million
Over 100 participants from countries, partners and civil society came together on 31 October at the third Strategic Initiative meeting on 'Finding the Missing People with TB'.
The meeting focused on progress achieved in the second year of implementation of the ambitious initiative of the Global Fund to find and treat an additional 1.5 million missing people with TB by the end of 2019.
At current rates of expansion, the countries will reach the 1.5 million target. Most countries are on track to meet their case finding targets and the Global Fund grants strategic focus on case finding is incentivizing this.
Organized jointly by WHO with the Global Fund, Stop TB Partnership and USAID in Hyderabad on the sidelines of the 50th Union Conference on Lung Health, the meeting brought together national TB programme managers and staff from the 13 countries, in-country TB technical partners, the Global Fund, Stop TB Partnership, USAID, KNCV, KIT, and other key international partners, as well as representatives from WHO headquarters, regional and country offices.