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The Global Partnership to Stop TB is a global movement to accelerate social and political action to stop the spread of tuberculosis around the world. The Stop TB mission is to increase access, security, and support to:

• Ensure that every TB patient has access to TB treatment and cure

• Protect vulnerable populations from TB

• Reduce the social and economic toll that TB causes to families, communities, and nations.

The Partnership's approach is a coordinated, multinational, multisectoral global effort to control TB. It operates within the framework of "The Global Plan to Stop TB", a strategy document or "business plan" developed and adopted through a consensus building process that culminated in its launch at the 2001 Partners' Forum meeting of all principal stakeholders. The Global Plan to Stop TB is a road map to the work programme of the Partnership to the year 2005.

Globally, the Stop TB Partners' Forum consists of an assembly of stakeholders and is the main coordinating body of the Stop TB Partnership. Its overall purpose is to promote and enable the acceleration of action to stop TB, through networking and exchange of relevant information with all involved. All who have an interest in accelerating action to stop TB can participate, including representatives from relevant areas of science, policy-makers, financial donors, country level managers and TB practitioners, the private sector, civil society and those involved in advocacy and communications. Special attention is given to ensuring that high-burden countries (representing patients and field level activities) strongly participate.

Health and Development Initiative-India is a partner of the Stop TB Partners' Forum.

The 1st Stop TB Partners' Forum was held in Washington in October 2001

The 2nd Stop TB Partners Forum will be held on 24th to 26th March 2004 in New Delhi, India. The Forum will convene ministerial delegations of the 22 highest tuberculosis burden countries, as well as high-level political invitees from the G-8 countries, and all Stop TB partners. The meeting will highlight progress at country level and the importance of private and civil sector involvement.

The objectives of the forum include:

• Report on progress of the Partnership and implementation of the Global

• Plan to Stop TB since the 1st Stop TB Partners' Forum in October 2001.

• Further accelerate efforts to address country constraints, needs and proposed solutions to reach the TB targets.

• Strengthen non-governmental (private and civil sectors) support to the implementation of Stop TB activities.

• Highlight the human face of TB through involvement of people who have been afflicted by TB and HIV/AIDS.

The expected outcomes are enhanced collaboration between Partners to strengthen partnership activities to Stop TB and evolve a consensus on the way forward to reaching the global TB targets in the form of the "New Delhi Pledges":

Watch this page for regular updates news and reports about the Forum.

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