Side event: 73rd Session, United Nations General Assembly - Ending HIV, tuberculosis and viral hepatitis - Intersectoral Collaboration

Despite having the fastest decline of TB rates among all WHO regions, the European Region, which includes central Asia, still bears the highest proportion of multidrug-resistant TB globally and is the region with the fastest rate of increase in the number of new HIV infections. Hepatitis B is estimated to have chronically infected more than 15 million people in the region and hepatitis C 14 million, most of whom are unaware of their status. Ensuring health and well-being for all at all ages and “leaving no one behind” are core values embedded in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To this end, an Issue-based Coalition on Health and Well-being for All at All Ages was established to foster cross-sectoral cooperation on health in the European Region.

This event aims at presenting and discussing how intersectoral collaboration at different levels, strengthened by a UN Common Position, can leverage further progress both towards ending HIV, TB and viral hepatitis and towards the SDGs.