Defeating Meningitis by 2030: Seventh Meeting of the Technical Taskforce

A meeting of the Technical Taskforce (TTF) for the Global road map on defeating meningitis by 2030 was convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 1 July 2022. The meeting, which was conducted both in person (at WHO headquarters in Geneva) and online, was opened at 11:00 Central European Time (CET) by the TTF Chair Prof Brian Greenwood of the United Kingdom who congratulated the WHO secretariat for keeping the road map project on track during the COVID-19 pandemic. The co-Chair Prof Samba Sow of Mali stressed the importance of prioritizing the work on the road map in order to speed up implementation towards the goal of defeating meningitis by 2030. It would be very important to set both short-term targets and longer-term goals.

Introducing the agenda, the Chair noted that the main aims of the meeting would be: 1) to consider operational support to regions and countries and how to make things happen, and 2) to review the investment case which had been circulated to participants and to discuss how this can best be launched to maximize resource mobilization.