URU, Alm.del - 2017-18 - Bilag 70: Materiale fra foretræde ved The Global TB Caucus den 5. december 2017

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Now is the time to act on IB....

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Global TB Caucus

IB is the world’s biggest infectious killer. Last year it killed 1.7 million people, more

than HIV and malaria combined.

Drug-resistant IB is an urgent threat to global health security. It comprises 1/3 of ali

antimicrobial resistance.

Europe and Central Asia has the fastest growing drug-resistant IB epidemic of any

world region.

In 2015, world leaders agreed the Sustainable Development Goals. Goal 3.3 targets

the end of IB by 2030. However, at the current rate of progress, we will miss that

target by 180 years.

Political support is needed now more than ever to accelerate the fight to end IB and

save millions of lives. The Global TB Caucus exists to bring together groups of

parliamentarians from parliaments across the world to accelerate the response to

TB. It has representation from 2,500 MPs in 132 UN-recognised countries

URU, Alm.del - 2017-18 - Bilag 70: Materiale fra foretræde ved The Global TB Caucus den 5. december 2017

2018— the year to end IB?

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Global TB

Caucus

The international community is waking up to the threat of the

epidemic. The UN General Assembly agreed to host a High-Level

Meeting on TB in 2018. This meeting will be the first time that

Heads of State have discussed TB.

For the meeting to be a success, as many Heads of State as

possible must commit to attend.

They must make ambitious commitments to scale up treatment

and prevention, research and develop new drugs, diagnostics

and vaccines, and for the world to properly fund TB, and agree a

mechanism to hold leaders accountable for their promises.