Together from Manila and Beyond — We Can End TB
The 39th Stop TB Partnership Board Meeting took place in Manila on October 28-30, 2025. At this meeting, TB-affected communities and civil society groups shared a joint statement. This message came from the Key & Vulnerable Population Delegation, Community Delegation, Developing Countries NGO Delegation, and Developed Country NGOs Delegation.
The statement calls for:
- Keeping communities at the center of the TB response
- Strong political commitment
- Fair and sustainable funding
- Support for community-led programs like the Challenge Facility for Civil Society (CFCS), which helps make TB programs more accountable and inclusive
We thank the Stop TB Partnership Board for ensuring community voices were heard, and our partners — Unitaid, the Government of France, the Global Drug Facility, and the Stop TB Secretariat — for investing in community systems.
Now we ask all donors, public and private, to increase and sustain support for community engagement. No country or community should be left behind.