Concept Note: High Level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the High-Level Meeting on the Fight Against Tuberculosis

The high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis is convened in accordance with General Assembly resolution 77/274. It will be held on September 22, 2023 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The meeting will bring together Member States and their delegations including Heads-of-State and other leaders, ministers from relevant ministries, representatives such as parliamentarians, mayors and governors of cities and states with a high burden of tuberculosis, representatives of civil society, including non-governmental organizations and indigenous leadership community organizations and faith-based organizations, academia, philanthropic foundations, the private sector and networks representing people affected by tuberculosis. The objective of the meeting is to undertake a comprehensive review of the achievement of agreed tuberculosis goals at the national, regional and global levels contained in the 2018 political declaration, to identify gaps and solutions to accelerate progress towards ending the epidemic by 2030.