Africa: Statement from TB Alliance on the First-Ever UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis

26 September 2018
press release

It has been 25 years since tuberculosis (TB) was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization and since then at least 10 declarations have stressed the burden of TB and the need to develop new products to prevent, diagnose and cure TB.

Despite this, progress in the fight against the disease - now the world’s deadliest infection - has been shamefully slow, with tens of millions of lives lost and hundreds of millions of patients and families suffering needlessly. When leaders gather in New York today for the first UN High-Level Meeting on TB, the world is listening and expecting true commitment and change.

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