The Global Ministerial Conference to end tuberculosis, which the World Health Organisation is holding together with the Russian Healthcare Ministry for the first time, is a key international event in global healthcare and in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
The conference will be attended by healthcare ministers and ministers of related sectors from 194 WHO member states, heads and representatives of UN bodies and other international organisations, NGOs, civil society representatives, as well as the heads of national programmes dedicated to ending tuberculosis.
The same day, Vladimir Putin will chair a meeting on the development of the Zvezda Shipyard in the Russian Far East. The agenda includes discussions on the shipyard’s potential portfolio up until the year 2035.