AMR Awareness Week (Day 6): MDR-TB, the existing anomolous AMR pandemic
The emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) represents one of the most daunting...
AMR Awareness Week (Day 5): the lack of new antibiotics, and the dubious role of Big Pharma
Once again, we begin by quoting a section of the official blurb for AMR Awareness Week: “World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is a...
AMR Awareness Week (Day 4): "One Health Stakeholders’ Best Practices" – what's that all about?
The WHO state that World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is intended to encourage (amogst other things “best practices among … One...
AMR Awareness Week November 18-26 (Part 3): how can we as individuals help reduce the risks?
Amongst other things, the WHO proposes that “World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is intended to encourage “best practices among the...
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week November 18-26 (Day 2): the nature of the threat of AMR
So how big a problem is antimicrobial resistance? AMR is unquestionably a growing problem and indeed was endorsed as such by the WHO at...
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) November 18-26 (Part 1)
Today is the first day of ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’ and we will be publishing a series of blogs during the week, intending to...
Another year, another WHO Global TB Report - and it’s really not looking good…
Three days ago we downloaded the new WHO Annual Global Report on TB and started workjing through it. It was a pretty horrible experience....
Vaccine pipeline for TB
We’ve just come across this: the Treatment Action Group’s ‘Tuberculosis Vaccines – Pipeline Report 2022’. It's a terrific analysis of...
Moxafrica arrives in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Starting next week, an exciting new initiative begins in South Africa. Once again the focus will be on in moxa and TB, but on this...
What COVID has been doing to tuberculosis control...
This unfortunately is a really bad news story relating to the current world of tuberculosis control…. …which emerged for us last week out...
