...World TB Day 2023 Marks the
Start of a New Era: Yes! We Can End TB!
New
Coalition of Leaders to End TB to be announced as preliminary data expected to
show reduction in gap between estimated TB cases and diagnosed patients, to
less than 3 million people in 2022
GENEVA/VARANASI (24 March 2023)—The Stop TB Partnership today issued a positive World TB Day reset, ‘Yes! We Can End TB,’ to rally the international community to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2030. The Stop TB Partnership Board and partners convened for the first time during World TB Day in Varanasi, India—the country with the highest TB burden but also with high political commitment, ambition, hard work and a robust plan to end TB. On the sidelines of the One World TB Summit, the board and partners embraced a post-pandemic call to action that will see new efforts, research, tools and innovations put into practice.