Report of the Ninth Meeting of the European Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Control

The Ninth Meeting of the European Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Control was held in Copenhagen on 25–26 November 2014. The objectives of the meeting were to: (i) review the epidemiology of TB and drug-resistant TB in the WHO European Region, including the burdens and trends; (ii) review progress in implementing the recommendations of the Eighth Meeting of the European Technical Advisory Group; (iii) review progress in implementing The Consolidated Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Multidrug- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the WHO European Region 2011–2015; and (iv) review the draft of, and make technical inputs into, the Tuberculosis Action Plan for the WHO European Region, 2016–2020.