Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Mansukh Mandaviya, took charge as the Chairperson of Stop TB Partnership Board
He will hold the responsibility with immediate effect and hold the position until 2024.
He will now lead the efforts of Stop TB Partnership Secretariat, partners, and TB community in order to reach towards reaching United Nations TB targets by 2022.
This partnership was established in the year 2000 in a bid to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) as a public health problem.