WHO Executive Board Discusses Draft Resolution On TB, Highlights Importance Of Addressing AMR

South Centre’s “News on AMR”: WHO Executive Board adopts draft resolution on TB, stresses importance of resistant TB in overall fight against AMR
Mirza Alas, associate researcher at the South Centre, discusses a draft resolution adopted at the WHO’s 142nd session of the Executive Board on the preparation for a High-level Meeting at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on ending TB. In this post, Alas highlights the draft resolution’s requests, as well as discussions among the WHO’s Executive Board on the need to address antimicrobial resistance (2/5).

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