UPSC Articles
Stop TB Partnership Board
Part of: GS Prelims and GS – II – Health
In news
- Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare has been appointed Chairman of the Stop TB Partnership Board.
- The Minister will serve a three year term, commencing July 2021.
Important value additions
Stop TB Partnership Board
- Established: 2000.
- Objective: To eliminate Tuberculosis as a public health problem.
- The organization was conceived following the meeting of the First Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Tuberculosis Epidemic held in London in March 1998.
- In 1998, through the Amsterdam Declaration, it gave a call for collaborative action from 20 countries that bear the highest burden of TB.
- It has 1500 partner organization
- Secretariat: Geneva, Switzerland.
Do you know?
- India has committed to eliminating TB by 2025.
- Global deadline is 2030.
