• Home
  
  WHO/Europe home page
• Where we work
  
  Our work in European countries
• What we do
  
  Data and evidence, health topics, events
  • Data and evidence
  • Health topics
  • Events
• What we publish
  
  Books, fact sheets, press releases, reports
  • Newsletters
  • Library resources
  • Information for the media
• Who we are
  
  About us, our partners and networks
  • WHO worldwide
  • Governance
  • Regional Director
  • Policy documents
  • Networks
  • Collaborating centres in the European Region
  • Partners
  • World Health Day
  • Contact us

Tuberculosis

Policy

(Photo: Ivan Chernichckin)

The core of WHO/Europe policy on tuberculosis (TB) is the Stop TB Strategy; it was created at the 2007 Ministerial Forum “All Against Tuberculosis”, which resulted in the Berlin Declaration on Tuberculosis.

The six-point Strategy builds on the successes of the DOTS (directly observed treatment, short-course) strategy, while also explicitly addressing the key challenges. Its goal is dramatically to reduce the global burden of TB by 2015 by ensuring all TB patients, including those co-infected with HIV or with drug-resistant TB, benefit from universal access to high-quality diagnosis and treatment.

The Strategy also supports the development of new and effective tools to prevent, detect and treat TB. It underpins the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Plan to Stop TB 2006–2015, and WHO/Europe’s Plan to Stop TB in 18 High-priority Countries in the WHO European Region, 2007–2015.