UN Approves Eradication Plan for Tuberculosis
UN approves ambitious five-year plan to fight tuberculosis
(Euronews, September 23, 2023)
World leaders at the United Nations have approved an ambitious plan to combat tuberculosis over the next five years.
The targets include reaching 90 per cent of people with TB prevention and care services, providing social benefit packages to all people with TB, licensing at least one new vaccine, and closing funding gaps for implementation and research by 2027.
In the lead-up to this historic meeting, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, officially launched the TB vaccine accelerator council to facilitate the development, licensing and use of new TB vaccines.
Opening the meeting, the President of the General Assembly, Dennis Francis, said, “The political declaration just approved today reflects the importance of a whole of society, whole of Government approach - and makes evidence-based recommendations to end TB by 2030.”
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UN-led programmes have targeted and eradicated two other diseases: smallpox and rinderpest (a cattle disease).