On 26 September, the first ever UN High-Level Meeting on TB will take place in New York. This is the first time in the centuries-old history of the disease that TB will be discussed, globally, at the Heads of State and Government level. As momentum builds for the meeting, Rachael Hore and Janika Hauser spoke with a TB survivor, practitioners, policymakers and politicians, to get their thoughts on what needs to happen at the High-Level Meeting to end TB for good. Find out what they had to say in our special World TB Day podcast: