Historic UN High-Level Meeting on TB opens with sweeping commitments by global leaders
Washington, D.C. (Sept. 26) – In a major win for affected communities and advocates across the world, the first-ever United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on Tuberculosis (TB) opened with firm commitments by leaders from all member states to reach 40 million people with treatment by 2022 and scale up global funding to US$13 billion per year for TB programs and $2 billion for research and development (R&D) annually in order to do so.