The global partnership (Stop TB) has been led by the U.N. World Health Organization (WHO), which was formed to help stop the international spread of the curable disease.
Tuberculosis still kills nearly two million people worldwide each year, according to the U.N. News report.
The WHO has a vision of a tuberculosis-free world, hoping to eradicate this curable disease for future generations.
Another coinciding development announced on Wednesday states that there have been more than one million lives saved so far in 102 countries, based on the UN Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria through the international group of both public and private efforts that began five years ago.
"It is heartening to learn that Global Fund resources have provided so many people across the globe, once suffering from this terrible disease, with renewed hope," said Dr. Carol Jacobs, U.N. Global Fund Board Chair.
The Global Fund has been the world's largest donor in fighting TB with nearly 70 percent of the funding, which has totaled nearly two billion dollars for 133 programs across 102 countries globally.
"We must step up the fight by mobilizing even more resources in order to expand and improve the quality of existing programs to treat ordinary tuberculosis and drug-resistant TB, and make greater investments in HIV/TB co-infection interventions," said Richard Feachem, the Global Fund's Executive Director.
March 24 is the international awareness day for TB named "World Tuberculosis Day."
