Kim, Minseok
STOP TB 협력위원회 위원장
Chairman of the Cooperation Committee,
Stop TB Partnership KOREA

Stop TB Partnership campaign for a tuberculosis-free world, your participation is highly encouraged.

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that represents severance and poverty. In order to tackle this infectious disease effectively, ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Cooperation’ are the most significantly required spirits. The Stop TB Partnership is an international cooperative and collegial entity having for its aim to eradicate tuberculosis, a severe global disease.

The Stop TB Partnership, founded and hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2001, is an international organization to combat tuberculosis in cooperation with the United Nations Project and Procurement Organization (UNOPS). Today, as the world is a community, the importance of cooperation between countries has been increasing to successfully combat the global epidemic of tuberculosis, a disease without borders.

In this regard, the Stop TB Partnership has strongly recommended that its partner countries establish and operate a national Stop TB Partnership Secretariat at a country level. As a result, 27 national Stop TB Partnership Secretariats have been instituted all around the world, including the United States, Japan, Canada, and Italy. In 2008. the Korean government also announced its plan to establish and operate a national Stop TB Partnership Secretariat, and the Stop TB Partnership KOREA, founded in consequence of the plan, has been playing a pivotal role in eradicating tuberculosis since 2010.

Over the past decade, the Stop TB Partnership KOREA has connected and cooperated with partners from all walks of life who share a common goal in the fight against tuberculosis, contributing to the fight against tuberculosis at home and abroad. However, we believe the international community's expectations for Stop TB Partnership KOREA are much higher as Korea has been considered one of the major countries in the quarantine system and global health. In addition, it is also our primary responsibility to strengthen cooperation in the eradication of tuberculosis in North Korea in preparation for the coming era of reunification.

It is in the midst of this domestic and international infectious disease crisis that I was inaugurated as the Chairman of the Cooperation Committee of the Stop TB Partnership KOREA to publicize the importance of eradicating tuberculosis throughout the world and further consolidate its position as a leading country in the fight against tuberculosis internationally.

Bringing together the capabilities of various partners and leading to close collaboration between the National Assembly and government ministries, we will strengthen policy-level and financial support for the Stop TB Partnership KOREA to contribute to achieving the national TB control objectives and the End-TB targets. We will also strive to make Korea take the lead in fighting tuberculosis in North Korea and Asia as well as within the country.

Shin Min Seok
대한결핵협회장
Chairman of
Korean National TB Association

Tuberculosis is now regarded as a disease that has disappeared. Still, Korea is the country that came in the 1st place in the TB incidence and the 3rd place in the TB mortality among OECD economies, with 22,904 people ill with TB in 2021 alone.

Although it is a fact that the number of patients has been declining every year, tuberculosis is still a severe disease that threatens public health, with more than 4,000 deaths per day worldwide and over 1,356 deaths domestically as of 2020. According to the WHO announcement, furthermore, approximately 1.5 million people died of TB in 2020, ranking 13th in the world's leading cause of death. Considering this reality, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the STOP-TB Partnership announced the 'End TB Strategy' to reduce TB mortality by 95% and TB incidence by 90% by 2035 as the targets of SDGs Goal 3 'Good Health and Well-Being'.

On the basis of these international TB elimination targets, the Stop-TB Partnership KOREA has made efforts to accomplish the End-TB goal, reinforcing Korea's role and enhancing its status by conducting various domestic and international cooperation activities. In addition, it has contributed significantly to the national TB eradication program by promoting projects linked to supporting TB education, administration, and treatment for the vulnerable, which are in the blind spot of TB management.

The Stop-TB Partnership Korea for a world without tuberculosis,
your interest and participation create a TB-free world.

Chang, Seung Joon
Stop TB Partnership 한국사무국 사무국장
Executive Director of
Stop TB Partnership KOREA

We sincerely welcome visitors to our official website of the Stop TB Partnership KOREA.

I, as the second executive director of the Stop TB Partnership KOREA, am honored to be able to work hard over the past decade to make Korea and the human community free of tuberculosis.

The Stop TB Partnership is a hosted international organization of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), striving to eliminate tuberculosis worldwide since it started to be hosted and administrated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2001.

Given the nature of tuberculosis as a respiratory infectious disease such as COVID-19, it is indisputable fact that no one is safe until everyone is safe.

To leave no one behind, the Stop TB Partnership Korea will be making considerable efforts in the fight against tuberculosis.

We will be the “sound of the soundless” who cannot speak for themselves, giving them hope for life along with tuberculosis treatment.

Thank you.