Get Back on Track and TB Key Populations Reports: How You Can Use them at the Union World Conference on Lung Health

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  • Work done through the efforts of the Global Fund and its partners has saved 27 million lives; this is proof of the effectiveness of the global commitment to tackle the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, including tuberculosis.   However, If the world only maintains current levels of investments and programming, internationally agreed targets for 2025 and 2030 will be unattainable.
  • We have a historic opportunity to end the TB epidemic. Significant increases in international funding are needed immediately if the global goal to end tuberculosis is to be met.
  • TB is the world’s most lethal infectious disease, with over 10 million new cases each year, an estimated 1.8 million deaths annually, and many more at risk for infection and illness.
  • GFAN’s Get Back on Track Report released earlier this year, calls for a funding increase of more than 20% to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in its Sixth Replenishment – which includes a doubling of current Global Fund spending on TB – to ensure a fund of between $16.8 and $18 billion for 2020 to 2022.

 

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The Global Fund is the largest financer of TB programs around the world, yet despite its efforts, we remain off track on our targets to eliminate TB.  In its Get Back on Track Report, @GFAdvocates calls for increased commitments for the 6th Replenishment of the Global Fund and a doubling of Global Fund spending on TB.

Learn more about how to Get Back on Track to #EndtheEpidemics https://www.globalfundadvocatesnetwork.org/campaign/get-back-on-track/
#UnionConf @theGlobalFund @StopTBPartnership @TheUnionLungHealth @TheUnionWorldConferenceOnLungHealth

 

Because of limited resources, the @GlobalFund‘s Register of Unfunded Quality Demand has over $US22 million worth of #TB programming targeting key populations currently going unfunded.  A successful Global Fund replenishment in 2019 is needed to begin to close the gaps for key and vulnerable populations and expand access to high-quality, evidence-based programming that will get us back on track to end the TB epidemic.

Read the Full Report: https://www.globalfundadvocatesnetwork.org/tb-key-populations-and-the-global-funds-sixth-replenishment/

#UnionConf @theGlobalFund @StopTBPartnership @TheUnionLungHealth @TheUnionWorldConferenceOnLungHealth

 

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UNHLM: What’s next?
16:15 – 19:15 De Ontmoeting 1 (Community space)

Coordinator: Ingrid Schoeman, South Africa
Chairperson: Meaghan Derynck, Netherlands
After the UNHLM meeting on TB this fall it is time to keep the flow going. How do we keep the momentum and what have we learned from the UNHLM? An interactive session dedicated at keeping TB on the political and communal agenda. With speakers and participants from different perspectives of the subject.

Three topics will be discussed in the session:

  • What next? Global TB advocacy after the UN HLM
  • Best practices: Stepping-up Community Engagement to Drive the Response building on the UN HLM on TB
  • National action and accountability following the UN High-Level Meeting on TB: Lessons learnt, reflections and the road ahead.

Best practices: Stepping-up Community Engagement to Drive the Response building on the UN HLM on TB
16:15 – 17:15
Carole Nawina Nyirenda, Zambia
Blessi Kumar, India
Wim Vandevelde, South Africa
Mercy Annapoorni, India
Peter Owiti, Kenya
Ingrid Schoeman, South Africa
Beatrijs Stikkers, Netherlands

National action and accountability following the UN High-Level Meeting on TB: Lessons learnt, reflections and the road ahead
17:15 – 18:15
James Malar, Switzerland
Safarali Naimov, Tajikistan
Baroness Alison Suttie, United Kingdom
Serhiy Kiral, Ukraine
Yulia Chorna, Ukraine
Rahab Mwaniki, Kenya

What next? Global TB advocacy after the UN HLM
18:15 – 19:15
Mandy Slutsker, United States of America
Blessi Kumar, India
Allan Maleche, Kenya
Matt Oliver, United Kingdom