Proud moment for India! Dr, Vardhan appointed as Chairman of ‘Stop TB Partnership Board’

New Delhi, March 17: Proud moment for India as Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan has been appointed Chairman of the Stop TB Partnership Board. The board has appointed him after recognizing his outstanding contribution to the movement to eradicate Tuberculosis (TB) from India by 2025. His tenure will begin from July 2021 and he will serve a three-year term as the Chair of the Board of Stop TB Partnership.

 

According to the board, he will lead the Stop TB Partnership´s decision-making body, which focuses on maintaining and elevating tuberculosis (TB) on global, regional, and national agendas. Dr. Harsh Vardhan will work alongside Dr. Joanne Carter, Executive Director, RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, USA, who currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board, until the end of her term in December 2021.

 

The Stop TB Partnership is a unique international body with the power to align actors all over the world in the fight against TB. The prestigious body was established in the year 2000. It is mandated to eliminate Tuberculosis as a public health problem. In its inaugural year itself, the Stop TB Partnership through the Amsterdam Declaration gave a call for collaborative action from ministerial delegations from 20 countries that bear the highest burden of TB. It has 1500 partner organizations which include international, non-governmental, and governmental organizations and patient groups. The Secretariat is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

 

 

It is a proud recognition of India’s political commitment to the eradication of TB. India has committed to eliminating TB in the country by 2025, five years ahead of the global deadline of 2030.

 

 

 

He has also had appointed as the chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board. Dr. Vardhan has always on the forefront of the battle against TB. Vardhan’s engagement in the eradication of the dreaded disease Poliomyelitis from India has found overwhelming global appreciation.

 

Earlier he had launched a new and aggressive ‘TB HaregaDeshJeetega’ Campaign, along with the National TB Prevalence Survey. Since then, multi-stakeholder and community participation has formed the pivot of the countrywide campaign. Patient forums have been established in over 95 percent of all districts within the first 100 days of the launch of the campaign, which clearly shows his strong commitment to ending TB in the shortest possible time.

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