Tuberculosis

Can the World Really “End” Tuberculosis?

Tuberculosis is on the decline worldwide. That’s the good news! The bad news is that TB remains endemic in scores of countries around the world and sickens millions each year. The international community is going to need to make a...

Map of the Day: Where Tuberculosis Kills

The World Health Organization today released new global data on Tuberculosis. The biggest takeaway: TB has now ranks along side AIDS as the leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. In 2014, TB killed 1.5 million people worldwide, disproportionately...

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...

How to Solve Childhood TB (Video)

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...

We Are Winning the Fight Against TB

It's World Tuberculosis Day

Statistic of the Day: China Halves Tuberculosis Prevalence

A WHO best practice proves effective

Desmond Tutu: To Fight TB Worldwide, Start in South Africa’s Mines

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.

Does Don Draper Have Tuberculosis?

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

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.

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Can the World Really “End” Tuberculosis?

Map of the Day: Where Tuberculosis Kills

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

How to Solve Childhood TB (Video)

We Are Winning the Fight Against TB

Statistic of the Day: China Halves Tuberculosis Prevalence

Desmond Tutu: To Fight TB Worldwide, Start in South Africa’s Mines

Does Don Draper Have Tuberculosis?

On World Tuberculosis Day: How the Global Fund Fights TB in Rural Bangladesh

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations