Bending the Curve: A 5 year Global Investment Framework to Win the Fight against TB and achieve the END TB Strategy targets

First draft of the next Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020 shared for review

A first draft of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020 has now been shared for review with the Coordinating Board members and will be released for public consultation in May. The Plan unpacks the interventions and costs of the first 5 years of the END TB strategy. It calls for a paradigm shift from just controlling TB to ending TB in the fight against the disease over the next five years if the world is to achieve an end to TB, as the World Health Assembly committed in 2014. 

The Stop TB Partnership has produced three previous five- and ten-year global plans since 2001. The current Plan differs from previous ones in several ways, including the fact that it does not aim to be an operational directive for countries. Full story here. 

Stop TB Partnership's 26th Coordinating Board Meeting concludes with several decision points endorsed

The 26th Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board has approved the first draft of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020 following a period of review by the Task Force and members of the Board. Over the next four months, online and regional consultations will seek input from anyone working with or affected by TB. 

Other discussions at the Board resulted in the approval of the 2015 workplan, the 2015-2016 advocacy strategy, agreement on implementing the joint UNOPS/Stop TB Partnership standard operating procedures, and the endorsement to develop the 2016-2020 Stop TB Partnership Operational Strategy. Full story here. 

Decision Points from the Coordinating Board meeting can be found here. The next Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board Meeting will be held on 29 November 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa ahead of the Union Conference in December. 

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