21 May 2013 - Geneva - Global leaders gathered this morning for a forum on health in the post-2015 development agenda. The event, now available to watch as a webcast, provided an opportunity for stakeholders to reflect on the outcomes of the Global Thematic Consultation on Health and provide further recommendations on future health goals and targets.

25 April 2013 - The Stop TB Partnership Secretariat has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to support its initiative to brand tuberculosis (TB).

15 April 2013 - Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop TB Partnership today honoured Dr Jorge Sampaio, the former UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to Stop Tuberculosis, for his work to raise the profile of tuberculosis (TB) on the international agenda.

From the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat:

The participants in a workshop convened last week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop TB Partnership have proposed a set of goals and targets to guide the global fight against TB after 2015.

Dr Joel Keravec has come on board as GDF’s manager. Dr Keravec has 22 years of experience as a public health consultant and project manager in Latin America, Africa and Europe, for UNDP, UNESCO, and Management Sciences for Health (MSH), the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PAHO and the Brazilian Ministry of Health. His technical areas of expertise include pharmaceutical management, product quality assurance and international quality standards for drugs, quality testing for laboratories, selection of essential medicines for standardized TB treatment, improved policy and regulatory environments for essential medicines and improved product management information systems.

On 29-30 January the World Health Organization (WHO) will convene an expert group meeting on the use of bedaquiline for treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

30 November 2012 - London - Last night 108 people gathered at Apothecaries Hall to launch the Sir John Crofton Fund to Fight TB. This new fund - named for the pioneering physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh who developed the "Edinburgh method" of treating TB, using a triple drug combination - will be used to fight TB in the United Kingdom and internationally. The event was organized by the United Kingdom’s national tuberculosis charity TB Alert, which will also manage the new fund.

23 November - Seoul, Republic of Korea - Some 120 experts on tuberculosis (TB) and representatives from NGOs, communities and the private sector gathered in Seoul yesterday and today for the first ever Forum of National Partnerships to Stop TB in the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific and South-East Asia regions. The forum, organized by the Korean Stop TB Partnership and Stop TB Partnership Secretariat, had as its goals to share best practices, discuss common challenges and develop country-specific and regional plans of action to strengthen efforts to stop TB.

At its 22nd meeting, the Coordinating Board decided to embrace calls for greater ambition in TB and voted to endorse the Zeroes campaign. Mark Harrington (Treatment Action Group), Lucica Ditiu (Stop TB Partnership), David Mametja (South African Department of Health), Salmaan Keshavjee (Partners in Health) and Mario Raviglione (WHO) made the "zero" sign.