Health ministers, NGOs, and private sector representatives from 120 countries adopted the Moscow Declaration at the recently held first WHO Global Ministerial Conference.
Moscow Declaration calls for eliminating additional deaths from HIV co-infection by 2020 and achieving synergy in coordinated action against TB and non-communicable diseases.
India is among the signatories to the declaration
Moscow declaration emphasis need for fixing multisectoral responsibility towards ending TB by 2035, the global target and multi-drug resistant TB would be tackled as a national public health crisis.