The Alliance for Public Health became the Focal Point of civil society organizations to work with the Global TB Caucus in Ukraine.
The Global TB Caucus is a global network of Parliamentarians founded in 2014. This unique international network unites over 1,400 Parliamentarians from 130 countries committed to end the tuberculosis epidemic.
The goal of the Global TB Caucus is to scale up the response to the TB epidemic at the national, regional, continental and global levels. The Caucus helps to enhance the measures aimed at fighting the disease, supporting political representatives from different countries of the world and closely cooperating with civil society organizations.
Parliamentarians play a key role in eliminating TB as sustainable results may not be achieved without the political will. Parliamentarians approve budgets, choose leaders, define policies and make a significant public impact, which is needed to overcome stigma and raise the awareness of their constituencies with regard to the disease.
Thanks to its active joint efforts in many countries, the Caucus aims to ensure that TB is always agenda item at EU Presidencies, G20 meetings and G7 meetings and BRICS.
For Alliance, the proposal to become a partner of the Global TB Caucus became another acknowledgement of its professional and effective participation in the response to the epidemic of TB in Ukraine. The cooperation prospects and the coordinating role of the Focal Point open new possibilities to coordinate efforts in fight with tuberculosis not only in our country but also in Europe and in the world. The first steps in cooperation between Alliance and the Global TB Caucus have already been made within the regional TB-REP project, with our organization being one of the project partners on behalf of the TB Europe Coalition.