UN General Assembly High-level Meeting on the fight against tuberculosis, 2023

Department for HIV, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections

The WHO Department leads the global effort to end the epidemics of HIV, tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), ensuring that every person has equitable access to highest-quality people-centred scientific evidence and services, regardless of who they are or where they live.

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To lead the global effort to end the epidemics of HIV, Tuberculosis (TB), Hepatitis, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), ensuring that every person has equitable access to highest-quality people-centred scientific evidence and services, regardless of who they are or where they live.

To develop and implement evidence-based normative guidance and standards, leveraging data and science, to ensure access to the latest health innovations, across the full continuum of public health, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care.

To safeguard and expand access to essential services for HIV, TB, Hepatitis and STIs and their determinants including for key and vulnerable populations, in collaboration with key multisectoral stakeholders and communities, while contributing to strengthening health systems, enhancing health and well-being and saving lives.

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Dr Tereza Kasaeva

Director

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Dr Matteo Zignol

Unit Head of the Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, Care and Innovation

Dr Farai Mavhunga

Unit Head, People-centred Services, Communities and Determinants (PCD)

Dr Katherine Floyd

Unit Head, TB Monitoring, Evaluation and Strategic Information

Mr Michael McCullough

Unit Head, Planning, Analysis and Risk Management

Ms Hannah Monica Dias

Cross Cutting Lead, Multisectoral engagement and accountability, WHO Flagship Initiative to end TB, Public-Private Mix and TB Elimination

Ms Karina Halle

Cross Cutting Specialist, Enhanced TB Collaboration for Country Impact in High TB Burden Countries

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Overview

The United Nations General Assembly held the second high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis on 22 September 2023.

The theme of the meeting is: “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.”

WHO was working closely with the office of the President of the General Assembly, the Co-facilitators, Member States and partners including civil society in making preparations for the UN high-level meeting. The main objective of the meeting was to implement a comprehensive review of progress in the context of the achievement of targets set in the 2018 political declaration, and in the Sustainable Development Goals. In preparation for the high-level meeting, Member States have requested for the Secretary- General, with support of the World Health Organization, to develop a "comprehensive and analytical report on progress achieved and challenges remaining in realizing tuberculosis goals within the context of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including on the progress and implementation of the 2018 political declaration”.

Political declaration of the high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis