WHO Unveils Plan to End Childhood TB Deaths Mark Leon Goldberg October 1, 2013 It won't cost much to save 74,000 kids lives.
The Terrifying Spread of Resistant Tuberculosis Lois Parshley April 19, 2013 The struggle to contain TB in India, before it mutates to the harder to treat resistant kind
Fighting TB in Africa’s Mines Mark Leon Goldberg February 5, 2013 A special guest post by Musa Mkoko, who is a former gold miner in South Africa.
A Great Day in the Fight Against Tuberculosis Mark Leon Goldberg January 2, 2013 The US Food and Drug Administration has now given fast track approval for a new treatment for MDR-TB.
Desmond Tutu: To Fight TB Worldwide, Start in South Africa’s Mines Mark Leon Goldberg November 8, 2012 Desmond Tutu has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today highlighting the problem ofTB among South African mine workers. He makes the convincing argument that strengthening the focus on TB control in South Africa's mining sector is key to controlling it worldwide.
World Tuberculosis Report 2012 – Some Progress, Not Enough Alanna Shaikh, MPH October 17, 2012 We’re making progress against Tuberculosis, but not enough. We’re doing a good job of reducing the global burden of TB. Our failure is with drug resistance. Multiple drug resistant TB (MDR TB) continues to rise, and we’re barely treating 20% of the people who have it.
A Big Victory Against Tuberculosis Mark Leon Goldberg August 9, 2012 A group of global health organizations including UNITAID, PEPFAR, The Gates Foundation and USAID banded together to sharply reduce the cost of a new kind of rapid diagnostic test for TB
Does Don Draper Have Tuberculosis? Jaclyn Schiff April 11, 2012 If you caught the latest episode of “Mad Men” on Sunday night, you saw a feverish Don coughing and spluttering around Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce before leaving the office early to take to bed.
On World Tuberculosis Day: How the Global Fund Fights TB in Rural Bangladesh Mark Leon Goldberg March 26, 2012 I created this video and wrote this post last March 24 that discusses Bangladesh's Global Fund-financed projects for TB control in hard-to-reach rural communities.
