Report of the 12th meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on TB for the WHO European Region

19–20 February 2018 Copenhagen, Denmark

The Twelfth Meeting of the European Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis was held in Copenhagen on 19–20 February 2018. The objectives of the Meeting were to: (i) review the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis and the Eleventh Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis; (ii) review the status of implementation of the Tuberculosis Action Plan for the WHO European Region 2016–2020; (iii) advise on measures to take to support Member States to achieve more impact against TB through a sustainable development approach; and (iv) advise on steps needed to build on political commitment from the Moscow Ministerial Conference to the United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on tuberculosis.