By
Aaron Motsoaledi,
Joanne Carter
Published: March 24, 2016, 6:57 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Advocacy
This World TB Day must turn a new page in the history of the fight against TB.
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By
Joanne Carter
Published: Nov. 11, 2015, 9:06 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response
WASHINGTON — New data from the World Health Organization shows that we have allowed a preventable, curable disease to become the world’s biggest communicable killer. The millenniums-old lung disease tuberculosis now outranks even H.I.V./AIDS in the number of lives it claims. The fact is that we’ve been very successful at curing people of TB since the 1950s — so why is this illness still such a scourge?
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By
Joanne Carter
Published: May 10, 2014, 9:14 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response
A new drug regimen for tuberculosis – a global epidemic that kills about 1.3 million people each year – has the potential to cut treatment times and costs dramatically.
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