Today is the first day of ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’ and we will be publishing a series of blogs during the week, intending to...

Three days ago we downloaded the new WHO Annual Global Report on TB and started workjing through it. It was a pretty horrible experience....

We’ve just come across this: the Treatment Action Group’s ‘Tuberculosis Vaccines – Pipeline Report 2022’. It's a terrific analysis of...

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...

This unfortunately is a really bad news story relating to the current world of tuberculosis control…. …which emerged for us last week out...

Today (March 24th, 2022) marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he'd discovered the bacterium that causes TB. It was a...

With great sadness we have just learnt of the death of Dr Paul Farmer yesterday in Rwanda. Dr Farmer (or ‘Dr Paul’ as he was much better...

This has been an immensely difficult piece to write - which is why this sad announcement is now two months overdue. Several weeks ago in...

On 14th October the WHO released its annual Global Tuberculosis Report. Its contents make for grim reading. We review its alarming...

Exactly one hundred years ago the first (and so far only) TB vaccine (BCG) was first successfully used on an infant. Currently somewhere...