To the UN, the WHO and the Stop TB Partnership: where are the targets for MDR- and XDR-TB?
Today is the UN's World Day of Social Justice. It's been marked on February 20th each year since 2007 (in recognition that exclusion and...
How to manage a drug-resistant pandemic? (2) Estimating the burden of disease at a national level…
In the previous blog we discussed the ways that the WHO generally use to estimate the proportion of the global TB pandemic that's...
How to manage a drug-resistant pandemic (1) - estimating the global burden
For some time we’ve been struggling to figure out how the WHO has been reporting that the proportion of MDR-TB hasn’t been rising (or at...
World AIDS Day 2015 and those tricky '90-(90)-90' targets
Michel Sidibé, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, made an exciting announcement this week. He said: “The good news is that we now have...
'Unchanged Melody (2)' ... further reflections on the 2015 Report
When it comes to measuring the progress of a disease three different methods of measurement are normally used: incidence, prevalence and...
Unchanged melody... (1)
Well the WHO’s Global Report has been out for over a week, and it turned out to contain pretty much the sort of numbers we were...
So whose Plan is it anyway?
The last twelve months has seen the emergence of a new ‘post-2015’ Global Strategy for TB – one that’s intended to be rolled out over the...
What Global Emergency exactly?
In a few days’ time the WHO will publish its annual Global Tuberculosis Report. You may find some reference made to it in the media. If...
The ‘Duke’ and the secondary stories behind this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine
Duke Ellington was once asked what his favourite type of music was. “There are only two types of music”, he replied, “either good music...
So what are the real costs of drugs today?
It’s unlikely you won’t have found yourself shocked these last few days by the story of the ex-hedge fund manager who bought the rights...
