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.
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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.
