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The Good, Bad and REALLY Bad News from the World Health Organization’s Latest Report on Tuberculosis

The World Health Organization released its annual Global Tuberculosis report on September 18th. The report is 250 pages long, a massive conglomeration of everything we know about the current state of the Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. It has all the newest...

Tuberculosis is easily treated. So Why Is It Still The Most Deadly Infectious Disease in the World?

The World Health Organization released the 2017 World Tuberculosis (TB) report this week. The conclusions are sobering. On the one hand, the report finds that global efforts to combat tuberculosis have saved an estimated 53 million lives since 2000 and reduced...

We’re in the middle of a dangerous Tuberculosis pandemic and we’re not doing enough to stop it.

This is bad. Tuberculosis (TB) has been a global pandemic for over a decade now; we already knew it was a serious global health problem. It’s worse, though, than we knew. The new World Health Organization (WHO) global TB report finds...

The Former US AIDS Chief is now a Top UN TB Official. He’s Come Back to Washington With a Message

The ongoing Ebola crisis continues to grab headlines ranging from celebrating the victories of a unified global response, to condemning the World Health Organization’s institutional ills during the crisis. There is, however, another deadlier disease that continues to be neglected by...

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