More on MDR-TB and the Global Tuberculosis Report of 2014 – two more important questions.
“Recent Trends in MDR –TB: a new analysis”… This was how the Global Report entitled one of its sections. The summary that followed claims...
Those Missing Millions…
This part of our analysis of the 2014 Global TB Report relates to the tricky subject of rates of incidence, prevalence and notification....
The Lancet Global Burden of Disease Report and tuberculosis
You may have seen the Gates Foundation-funded Global Burdens of Disease report... There was some truly earth shaking stuff tucked away in...
'The WHO's new Post-2015 Plan to create a World that is free of Tuberculosis' Part 2 -
The World Health Assembly has really embraced the word “ambitious” – using it as the fundamental adjective to describe its 2015-2035...
The WHO's new 'Post-2015 Plan to create a World that is free of Tuberculosis' Part 1 - A
Article 1 of the WHO’s constitution states that that the objective given to it by its members includes the attainment by all peoples of...
The 2014 Global TB Report
The WHO published its annual Global TB Report for 2014 last month... We’ve been studying these reports for several consecutive years now,...
World TB Day 2014 - and Einstein and keeping it simple
To make a good theory, Einstein is said to have taught that “everything should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler.” So exactly...
World AIDS Day 2013 – but don't forget TB…
"If we are to do something about AIDS, then we have to do something about TB. If we are to do something about TB, we are going to have to...
World TB Day 2013
Another World TB Day - the anniversary of when Robert Koch announced his discovery of the Mycobaterium tuberculosis in Berlin in 1882....
World TB Day 2012 - a shocking summary
The WHO millennium plan for TB intended to reduce rates of TB to 50% what it was in 1990 by 2015. With three years to go to meet this...
