In order to support country programmes, healthcare providers, communities, people affected by TB, and partners during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stop TB Partnership’s External Affairs & Strategic Initiatives team, as part of its Re-imagining TB Care initiative, is organizing a series of Virtual Innovation Spotlights to present and share various digital and health technologies that can be used to:

The Stop TB Partnership Board has appointed Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, as the new Chair of the Stop TB Partnership Board. Dr. Harsh Vardhan’s three-year tenure will begin in 2021.

On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021, the Stop TB Partnership marked the vital role that women in all their diversity play in the global fight to end TB and in the overall global health arena. The Stop TB Partnership supported the launch of the TBWomen network and their 2021-2025 strategic plan and also launched a new position paper by Stop TB Partnership's TB REACH on 'Gender and TB'.

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On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021, TBWomen will be launched as a network accompanied by a short panel discussion featuring women who lead in TB. TBWomen is a new global network of women in their diversity working toward a gender-transformative TB response. The event will be co-hosted by the Stop TB Partnership which will release a position paper focusing on gender-sensitive TB interventions.

The Clock Is Ticking
There are now less than two years left to fulfill the promises and take action on the commitments made at the UN High-Level Meeting on TB in 2018.

Wave 9 to address shortcomings in drug-resistant TB care - linkage to care, uptake of novel treatment regimens and treatment outcomes.

Lack of access to COVID-19 vaccines for people in the world’s poorest countries echoes the health inequity faced by people affected by TB.

In December 2020, more than 150 TB-affected community and civil society partners from over 60 countries released a report, A Deadly Divide: TB Commitments versus TB Realities, evaluating the progress towards fulfilling the targets and commitments contained within the UN Political Declaration on TB.

18 January 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – The Stop TB Partnership launched today the Digital Health Technology Hub (DHT Hub), a unifying virtual platform that brings together the organization’s expertise and work in the digital health technology space to support the achievement of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (UNHLM on TB) commitments and targets.