About us
Vision |
To lead the global effort to end the epidemics of HIV, Tuberculosis (TB), Hepatitis, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), ensuring that every person has equitable access to highest-quality people-centred scientific evidence and services, regardless of who they are or where they live. To develop and implement evidence-based normative guidance and standards, leveraging data and science, to ensure access to the latest health innovations, across the full continuum of public health, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care. To safeguard and expand access to essential services for HIV, TB, Hepatitis and STIs and their determinants including for key and vulnerable populations, in collaboration with key multisectoral stakeholders and communities, while contributing to strengthening health systems, enhancing health and well-being and saving lives. |
To achieve this vision, the Department for HIV, TB, Hepatitis, and STIs focuses on 7 priorities
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Leadership: Lead the global effort to end the epidemics of HIV, TB, Hepatitis, and STIs by shaping strategies, catalyzing political and multisectoral commitment, and driving accountability, advocacy, and partnerships. |
| 2 | Evidence-based normative guidance development: Develop and implement highest quality, evidence-based, high-impact norms and standards in engagement with strategic partners. |
| 3 | Capacity building and policy implementation: With RO and CO support countries in translating global guidance into action through technical assistance especially in high-burden settings |
| 4 | With Country Offices, Regional Offices, WHO-HQ, Member States and partners: We will work to enhance cohesion and maximize synergies across the three levels of WHO. With greater clarity and definition on roles and responsibilities to maximize our collective impact, with each focused on our core mandates |
| 5 | Data for monitoring disease burden and impact: Strengthen the use of strategic information to monitor burden, assess impact, guide decisions, and track progress toward 2030 targets. |
| 6 | Health equity and community engagement: Integrate equity, gender, and rights including addressing key and vulnerable populations; and position communities and civil society as central actors in addressing social determinants and driving integrated responses. |
| 7 | Research agenda: Shape and promote research & innovation, facilitate the equitable scaling up of innovative health interventions, and delivery models |
The WHO Department leads the global effort to end the epidemics of HIV, tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), ensuring that every person has equitable access to highest-quality people-centred scientific evidence and services, regardless of who they are or where they live.
Contact
World Health Organization
20, Avenue Appia
1211 Geneva, 27 Switzerland
Email contacts per topic:
HIV: hiv-aids@who.int
TB: gtbprogramme@who.int@who.int
Hepatitis: hepatitis@who.int
STIs: hiv-aids@who.int
Strategies
Global Health Sector Strategies on HIV, Hepatitis and STIs – 2022-2030
Our work
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UN General Assembly High-level Meeting on the fight against tuberculosis, 2023
Overview
The United Nations General Assembly held the second high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis on 22 September 2023.
The theme of the meeting is: “Advancing science, finance and innovation, and their benefits, to urgently end the global tuberculosis epidemic, in particular, by ensuring equitable access to prevention, testing, treatment and care.”
WHO was working closely with the office of the President of the General Assembly, the Co-facilitators, Member States and partners including civil society in making preparations for the UN high-level meeting. The main objective of the meeting was to implement a comprehensive review of progress in the context of the achievement of targets set in the 2018 political declaration, and in the Sustainable Development Goals. In preparation for the high-level meeting, Member States have requested for the Secretary- General, with support of the World Health Organization, to develop a "comprehensive and analytical report on progress achieved and challenges remaining in realizing tuberculosis goals within the context of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including on the progress and implementation of the 2018 political declaration”.