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nThe World Health Organisation's Global Tuberculosis Report 2016, published today, shows that TB - already the world’s deadliest infectious disease - just got deadlier, with more cases, more deaths and more drug-resistance.n nAccording to the report, there were an...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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 n"46....

nOn Tuesday 12 July the APPG co-hosted a special event to mark the progress that has been made by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria ahead of its Fifth Replenishment pledging conference in Montreal on 16 September.n nInvestments from the Global Fund have...

nLast Wednesday at international development questions APPG member Oliver Colvile MP led the session and called on the Secretary of State to do everything possible to ensure the Global Fund's replenishment target is met as a minimum. n nThe shadow Secretary of State,...

n nToday the independent Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) commissioned by the Prime Minister published its final report on how we can address antibiotic resistance and therein incentivise new research and development for conditions including TB:...

Together with the APPGs on HIV AIDS and Malaria and NTDs, on Tuesday 10 May, the APPG on Global TB co-hosted a private round table discussion with the founding Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Sir Richard Feachem, and the Fund's...