General Assembly adopts a resolution deciding format, focus of the upcoming High-Level Meeting on TB in September
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a text, titled “Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis”, by which it decided that the one-day high-level meeting convened by its President shall be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 22 September 2023 during the general debate of the Assembly’s seventy-eighth session and shall consist of an opening segment, a plenary segment for general discussion, two multi-stakeholder panels and a brief closing segment.
It also decided the overall theme of this meeting will be “Advancing science, finance and innovation, and their benefits, to urgently end the global tuberculosis epidemic, in particular by ensuring equitable access to prevention, testing, treatment and care”.
Source: United Nations
