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STOP TB PARTNERSHIP BOARD & MORE ( CURRENT AFFAIRS 18 MARCH 2021)

 STOP TB PARTNERSHIP BOARD

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare has been appointed Chairman of the Stop TB Partnership Board.
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About:

  • The Union Health Minister will serve a three year term, commencing July 2021, as the Chair of the Board of Stop TB Partnership.

  • Established in the year 2000, the ‘Stop TB Partnership’ is mandated to eliminate Tuberculosis as a public health problem.

  • The organization was conceived following the meeting of the First Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Tuberculosis Epidemic held in London in March 1998.

  • 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 at Geneva, Switzerland.

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