The UN General Assembly will convene a High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) for the second time during its 79th session (UNGA 79) in New York in September 2024. Drug-resistant infections know no borders, meaning no single country can respond to AMR alone. This meeting is an important opportunity for world leaders to collectively address the looming threat AMR poses to global health, food security, and achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Organized by the President of the General Assembly, a multi-stakeholder hearing on AMR took place on 15 May 2024, as part of the preparatory process for the High-level Meeting. The hearing was a key moment for stakeholders from across different sectors to contribute, ahead of intergovernmental negotiations on the political declaration. The hearing was supported by WHO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Organisation for Animal Health (also known collectively as the Quadripartite organizations) and other relevant partners.
The first UN High-level Meeting on AMR took place in 2016.
Side Events hosted by Stop TB
The Stop TB Partnership will host three side events on the sidelines of the United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and offer platforms to discuss the progress, achievements and challenges against the targets set in 2023 TB Political Declaration while creating insightful discussions on how fighting AMR will accelerate the fight against TB.
A strong delegation of TB and drug-resistant TB survivors and civil society will lead and join these events.
The side events are being organized on 24th and 25th September 2024 and co-hosted with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Indonesia’s Ministry of Health, Philippines Department of Health and Tajikistan’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Population.
While all three are in-person events, Stop TB Partnership will livestream two events on its official YouTube and Facebook channels. A complete list of all the events is below.
