Amsterdam Declaration to Stop TB
The Amsterdam Declaration is a call for action and a commitment to support a new, invigorated approach to controlling Tuberculosis. Its goals include stronger national TB plans, increased access to TB drugs, accelerated TB research and additional global TB funding. Representatives from 22 high- burden countries comprising 80% of the global TB burden issued the Declaration.

Cape Town Declaration
Signatories included 120 representatives from multinational organizations such as the World Health Organization and World Bank, as well as from academia, industry, foundations and other non-governmental organizations dedicated to the fight against tuberculosis. The group of organizations set a number of targets towards the goal of "accelerating the development of new drugs to shorten the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and [to] facilitate its control in the poorest countries."

Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
The Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was adopted by 189 member states without reservation. The Declaration contains the commitment of leaders of governments and states to take action on HIV/AIDS in a number of areas, including leadership, prevention, care, support and treatment, TB/HIV co-infection, and HIV/AIDS and human rights.

G-8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit Communiqué
The G8 nations promised to work toward achieving a 50 percent reduction in TB deaths by 2010, among other goals to control infectious diseases.

UN Millennium Declaration
The states of the United Nations reaffirmed their commitment to work toward a world in which eliminating poverty and sustaining development would have the highest priority. This included a pledge to have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the incidence of priority communicable diseases, including TB.

UN Millennium Development Goals
The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), grew out of the agreements and resolutions of world conferences organized by the United Nations in the past decade, and are now commonly accepted as a framework for measuring progress on the UN Millennium Declaration.

Washington Commitment to Stop TB
Signed by more than 50 Stop TB Partners, this is a commitment to monitor progress, to undertake urgent and accelerated action against TB, and to mobilize additional resources through increasingly coordinated efforts. In addition, signatories pledged to intensifying efforts to reach the global targets for TB control by 2005.