Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan has been appointed as the Chairman of the Stop TB Partnership Board. He will serve a three-year term commencing from July 2021.
- He was appointed in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the movement to eradicate Tuberculosis from India by 2025.
- The Stop TB Partnership is a unique international body with the power to align actors all over the world in the fight against TB.
- The Partnership’s vision is a TB-free world.
(Source: AIR)
