The Indian Factor (Part 1) or “a plea to the World Health Assembly and to the new Director General o
We’re now 24 years into a Global Emergency (one which the WHO originally proclaimed in 1993) and it's clear that it’s feared that the...
World TB Day 2017 (3) - lighting up the world in red ('dream, mirage or nemesis' and the 
As usual, March 24th was World TB Day and this year the Stop TB Partnership literally wanted to see the world ‘lit up’ for TB – meaning...
World TB Day 2017 (2): Something very serious doesn't add up in the numbers...
As a tiny stakeholder in the battle against tuberculosis we’ve been monitoring the pandemic through the lens of the annual WHO Global TB...
World TB Day 2017 (1) -
In 1917, exactly one hundred years ago, a London-based physician called out his native country on tuberculosis[1]: “As long as apathy,...
WHO's response to our letter
In our last blog we published the letter we wrote to Dr Matteo Zignol of the WHO in response to a letter which he wrote to the Guardian...
In hope for 2016...
Even an intermittent reader of these blogs will know that the underlying themes of our blogs revolve around our struggles to make...
A letter to the World Health Organisation
Dear Dr Zignol ~ I write with reference to your letter to the Guardian of November 7th. You will recall, I’m sure, that you wrote in...
‘The time has come to move TB to centre stage’ – but what’s happening in India?
The UN has only ever previously called summits on health issues for three reasons: HIV, Ebola, and widespread chronic diseases (which...
Seeing politicians getting behind TB...
Last week at the ‘TB2016’ Conference in Durban, the official launch of an African TB Caucus was hailed as “a renewed political...
World TB Day 2016 - and 'bending those curves'..
It's World TB Day again, a full 23 years since TB was declared a Global Emergency, and FINALLY we are seeing some heat being turned up on...
