CAPE TOWN, 5th DECEMBER 2015: Today activists disrupted the calm halls of the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Activists from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SECTION27, the Global TB Community Advisory Board, the Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA) and the ITPC sat on the floors of the hallways and held their own plenary session in huge disappointment at the “business as usual” status quo of the Union.

TB activists at the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health demanded that pharmaceutical company Sanofi be held accountable for failing to provide life-saving products to people and children living with TB and drug-resistant TB in South Africa and across the world.

Colleen Daniels of Treatment Action Group challenged the delegates assembled to be more ambitious and aim for zero TB deaths, zero new infections and zero suffering and stigma.