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 still kills over 1.5 million people a year worldwide - more than any other infectious disease - and around 10 million people a year fall ill with it.
Nick chairs the Global TB Caucus which he launched in 2014, initiating the Barcelona Declaration with a speech to the World Lung Conference.
In 2018 the United Nations convened a High Level Meeting on TB, the first time the disease has received this level of global attention, with a further meeting held in 2023. Nick's work was focused on ensuring that these crucial events were a success and would deliver a renewed effort in the battle to fight TB.
While he was an MP Nick helped to form the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB which he continues to co-chair.
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In a speech at the UN High Level Meeting on AMR Nick calls for immediate action to tackle drug resistant tuberculosis
Nick calls for TB to be addressed at the upcoming High Level Meeting on Anti Microbial Resistance at the UN
Speaking at the Union conference in Paris, Nick calls for political commitments to end TB to be translated into action.
Speaking in the House of Lords on World Aids Day, Nick calls for action to tackle both the HIV/AIDS and TB pandemics
In the House of Lords Nick says that the rediscovery of polio in the UK is a reminder that such diseases are not truly beaten until they are eradicated globally
In a House of Lords debate on overseas aid Nick calls for vital funding of TB research & development to be restored as soon as possible.
On World TB Day, Nick secures a Private Notice Question in the House of Lords to call for action to fight the disease
In the House of Lords Nick call for action to end the tuberculosis epidemic which still claims 1.5 million lives a year
The Guardian reports that Nick and senior parliamentarians have written to the Foreign Secretary raising their grave concern about cuts to the global health research budget.
“We need to raise our voices again” — Nick calls for new action to End TB at the Union World Conference on Lung Health.
Nick makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords in the Second Reading debate on the Fire Safety Bill
Nick’s request for DfID Ministers to support the Global Fund, and suggestion during Business Questions for a debate on the same.
Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert met the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations last week to discuss ambitious targets to end the Tuberculosis epidemic.
Nick’s speech in the debate to mark World TB Day, encouraging greater commitment in the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease, tuberculosis.
In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick discusses upcoming debates on TB and fracking and lays out the next steps in the Brexit process.
In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick discusses his ongoing campaign for action to tackle tuberculosis globally and the threat posed by this curable disease.
Nick calls for a debate to mark World TB Day, to raise awareness of the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease, tuberculosis.
Nick’s article for The Guardian discussing the campaign to end tuberculosis at the United Nations’ High Level Meeting on TB.
In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick discusses his campaign at the United Nations to end tuberculosis.
In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick discusses another busy week in the life of an MP, including his campaigns on West Sussex heritage, rail service and environmental planning permissions for fracking.
In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick discusses another busy week in the life of an MP.
In advance of the forthcoming UN High Level Meeting on TB, Nick speaks in a Commons debate, which he secured.
Nick’s article on 4 June for Parliament’s “House” magazine, jointly authored with Virendra Sharma MP.
Read and watch Nick’s speech of 4 June at the UN Interactive Civil Society Hearing on the Fight Against Tuberculosis.
In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick describes another busy week in the life of an MP.
Last week the World Health Organisation published its latest estimates of the TB epidemic. The good news is that the global campaign against HIV has led to a remarkable fall in deaths from AIDS. The bad news is that TB now claims the unwanted title of being the world’s biggest infectious killer.