APPG holds AGM

n n nOn Monday 10 October the APPG on Global Tuberculosis held its Annual General Meeting in Room O, Portcullis House.n n nMinutes are as below.n n n n n n n n n n nPresent: Apologies:nDan Sharp (Secretariat) Virendra Sharma MPnRt Hon Nick Herbert MP Grahame Morris...

UN convenes High Level Meeting on AMR

nFollowing publication of the UK’s seminal Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), the United Nations has convened a High Level Meeting on AMR which has resulted in a landmark declaration agreeing to tackle the threat being signed by 193 countries.n nThe agreement...

Stop TB Partnership meeting on fringe of UN HLM on AMR

nAs world leaders arrive in New York for the UN’s High Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, the 28th Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board Meeting concluded today with a call for the first ever UN High Level Meeting on TB:...

APPG welcomes record UK pledge to the Global Fund

Sharing a stage with world leaders in Montreal today, the new Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, made her first major announcement: an increased contribution from the UK to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria of £1.1...

G20 calls for global action to tackle AMR

nFollowing the leadership of the UK Government and others, the G20 grouping of the world’s leading economies has called for coordinated action to tackle antimicrobial resistance.n nThe communique from the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Hangzhou, China, states:n...