A/RES/72/268
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 April 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 127
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 4 April 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.40)]
72/268.
Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level
meeting on the fight against tuberculosis
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 71/159 of 15 December 2016, entitled “Global health
and foreign policy: health employment and economic growth”, in which it decided to
hold a high-level meeting in 2018 on the fight against tuberculosis,
Recalling also its resolution 71/3 of 5 October 2016, entitled “Political
declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on antimicrobial
resistance”, and its resolution 70/266 of 8 June 2016, entitled “Political Declaration
on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to
Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030”,
Recognizing that through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development 1 and its Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, Heads of
State and Government made a bold commitment to ending the tuberculosis epidemic
by 2030,
Recognizing also the World Health Organization End TB Strategy, endorsed by
the sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, in 2014, 2
Taking note of the Global Tuberculosis Report 2017 of the World Health
Organization,
Emphasizing that current global actions and investments fall far short of those
needed to end the global tuberculosis epidemic,
Welcoming the convening of the World Health Organization First Global
Ministerial Conference on Ending Tuberculosis in the Sustainable Development Era:
A Multisectoral Response, held in Moscow on 16 and 17 November 2017, and taking
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Resolution 70/1.
See World Health Organization, document WHA67/2014/REC/1, resolution 67.1.
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