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

September 19, 2018

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 data o...

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

Alanna Shaikh, MPH

November 1, 2017

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 redu...

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

Alanna Shaikh, MPH

October 14, 2016

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 that TB is actually wor...

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

Katherine Edelen

July 13, 2015

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 conti...

How to Solve Childhood TB (Video)

Mark Leon Goldberg

March 24, 2015

For World Tuberculosis Day today, the TB Alliance is shining the spotlight on a sometimes overlooked aspect of the global TB burden: pediatric TB. Worldwide, TB has been on a steady decline--deaths have dropped 45% based on 1990 levels, meaning the world i...