Stop TB Partnership Board 

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.