APPG Co-Chair Andrew George MP and Kenyan TB/HIV activist Lucy Chesire met with two representatives from the World Bank to discuss the World Bank's role in fighting TB Africa.

The meeting in Parliament with Joy Phumaphi, Vice President of the Human Development Network and Christian Baeza, Acting Head of Health, Nutrition and Population followed correspondence between the APPG and World Bank about the need for an accelerated response to the TB emergency in Africa.

Read the APPG's correspondence with the World Bank.

Members of the APPG met with Dr. Jerald C. Sadoff, President and CEO of Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation to discuss the need for a new TB vaccine and Aeras’ role in its development and delivery.

Download the minutes of the meeting.

The APPG on Global Tuberculosis has released its paper Scaling Up the UK’s Response to the Global TB Epidemic: An Agenda for Action. Click here to download the report.

MPs call for accelerated response to global TB epidemic: All-Party Parliamentary Group launches ‘Agenda for Action’ ahead of World TB Day. Read the APPG’s press release.

Rt. Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for the International Development has signed a statement in support of the Global Plan to Stop TB around World TB Day 2007. Click here to read the full statement.