Urgently ENDING TB Needs Uninterrupted Supply Chain

Civil Society Note 

Point to Ponder 

Urgently Ending TB is a mammoth task for TB Advocates, activists, and healthcare workers. Other points that hampered the effective TB Control Program are wide gaps between TB commitments and TB realities like on-the-ground budgetary allocation and availability of funds with the Ministry of Health (MoH), and the National Tuberculosis Control Program to procure the anti-TB drug and reagent in time. Therefore, uninterrupted drug supplies and reagents face shortages at the community level.

Hence, implementation of quality Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS) to save lives. It is the duty of the government to allocate resources timely and adequately to ensure effective TB services to save lives.

United Nation High Level Meeting (UNHLM) 2023

Civil Society Note

Point to Ponder 

UNHLM 2023 on TB

(22 September 2023)

TB STUDY GROUP (TSG) humbly requests all UN member states to allocate adequate resources for urgently Ending TB worldwide. TSG also urges to set up a realistic target for diagnosing and treating all forms of TB; unrealistic targets can be misleading for TB workers to End TB.

Dr. Ahmed Parvez Zabeen, Honorary Chief Executive Officer (CEO), TB STUDY GROUP

An effective TB vaccine is needed to prevent TB from Latent TB Infection (LTBI) by 50%. The heads of government and states who will attend the 78th UNGA firmly plead to allocate enough funds for effective TB vaccine development as soon as possible to make a TB-free World.