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Stop TB Partnership
The Union hosted the first preparatory meeting for
the creation of the Stop TB Partnership in January 1998. The Stop
TB Initiative was officially launched by the Director General
of WHO, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, at the 29th Union World Conference
on Lung Health held in Bangkok in November 1998.
The Stop TB Initiative
has now grown to a true partnership which includes the governments
of high burden countries, and the principal governmental and non
governmental organisations working in TB control.
Key meetings of the Stop TB Partnership were held
in Amsterdam in 2000, leading to the Amsterdam
Declaration,
and in Washington,
DC in 2001.
The main aim of the Partnership
is to tackle one of the major public health problems of this century
by joining forces and adopting a common strategy to reduce the
burden of tuberculosis. Detailed information on the implementation
of the Global Plan to Stop TB and on the tuberculosis situation
worldwide can be found at: http://www.stoptb.org.
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