All Campaigns
Learn more about Stop TB Canada’s advocacy priorities by reading about the network’s current and previous campaigns.
Current Campaigns
Include TB within the AMR agenda at the UN High-Level Meeting on AMR
In September 2024, the United Nations will hold the second High-Level Meeting (UN HLM) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). While TB accounts for a significant proportion of AMR-related deaths, drug-resistant TB is largely overlooked in the broader AMR agenda. Drug resistance is a major driver of the TB burden with more than 400 000 new cases in 2022, however, only 2 in 5 accessed diagnosis and treatment. It is clear that no effort to end TB will be successful without a robust AMR response and no AMR response will be complete without ending TB.
We call on Canada to meaningfully participate in the UN HLM on AMR on September 26, 2024, including by announcing new funding to address AMR and TB, influencing the political declaration, and supporting the involvement of the AMR-affected community. Learn more
Increase investments in TB Research & Development
TB has long been under-prioritized and under-funded. Financing for TB research and development (R&D) is particularly lacking, impeding the world’s ability to invest in the scientific innovation that’s necessary to reach TB elimination. To make matters worse the annual funding need for TB R&D has more than doubled due to years of severe underfinancing as well as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB programming.
We are urging the Government of Canada to increase its investments in TB R&D to contribute its fair share and to help improve the tools we have to prevent, diagnose, and treat TB. Learn more
National TB Elimination Strategy
Eliminating TB in Canada is possible - but we need a plan. We are calling on the Government of Canada to develop a National TB Elimination Strategy, developed in collaboration with the provinces and territories, Indigenous leaders and TB-affected communities that includes commitments, guidelines, and the funding required to end TB. Learn more
Previous Campaigns
TB REACH 2023
Throughout 2023, we called for Canada to invest in Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative - an innovative funding mechanism that works to ensure that people in hard-to-reach communities are not missed by health systems.
In September 2023, Prime Minister Trudeau announced $25.5 million over two years for the initiative. Thanks to everyone who took action, Canada heard our call for a multi-year commitment.
Read more about this achievement here.
The Global Fund #FightForWhatCounts Campaign
Over the course of several months in 2022, Stop TB Canada joined civil society organizations, both in Canada and globally, in calling for world leaders to #FightForWhatCounts in support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s Seventh Replenishment.
Our efforts did not go unnoticed - this campaign concluded at the Global Fund Replenishment Conference on September 21, 2022, with CAD$1.21 Billion pledge from Canada to the Global Fund.
Read more about this historic achievement here!
Check out the details of our full campaign here.
World TB Day 2022
Every year on March 24, the world spotlights TB with World TB Day to increase awareness for TB and stand in solidarity with all those affected by the disease.
On World TB Day in 2022, among many events and activities alongside our partners, the network and Results Canada participated in an outdoor gathering where the Honourable Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan announced an investment of $11 million in TB REACH. Check out the full recap of World TB Day 2022 here.