Kolkata, Mar 15 (UNI) Tracking progress to eliminate tuberculosis, Member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region has committed to further intensifying efforts to ensure rapid and concrete progress to End TB by 2030.
In a statement adopted at the Delhi End TB Summit, member countries unanimously agreed to actualizing and intensifying essential actions agreed to in the Delhi Call to Action which was adopted in March last year to accelerate efforts to End TB in the Region, host to one fourth of the global population but a disproportionate 46 per cent of the global TB burden.
“Progress against TB in this Region will have a major impact on the progress globally,” Director-General, World Health Organization Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.