TB
Nick works closely with international development NGOs on the growing problem of tuberculosis, especially in developing countries. Most people think that TB is a disease of the past, but it killed 1.7 million people a year worldwide last year - more than any other infectious disease - and 10.4 million people fell ill with it. 30 million people have died from TB since 2000.
Nick chairs the Global TB Caucus which he launched in 2014, initiating the Barcelona Declaration with a speech to the World Lung Conference.
2018 was an exceptionally important one in the fight against TB. In September, the United Nations convened a High Level Meeting on TB, the first time the disease has received this level of global attention. Nick's work was focused on ensuring that this event was a success and would deliver a renewed effort in the battle to fight TB.
While he was an MP Nick helped to form, and co-chaired, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB.
Nick meeting the Secretary of State for International Development, Penny Mordaunt, at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis (21 March 2018)
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