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10 Ways to Make Good on the Promise of Ending Tuberculosis

By Obiefuna Arinze Austin As tuberculosis surges and COVID-19 deaths decline, TB is regaining its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The disease will kill more than 1.6 million people worldwide this year—an unspeakable injustice considering TB is preventable and curable. However, the global TB...

Can the World Really “End” Tuberculosis?

Tuberculosis is on the decline worldwide. That’s the good news! The bad news is that TB remains endemic in scores of countries around the world and sickens millions each year. The international community is going to need to make a...

Map of the Day: Where Tuberculosis Kills

The World Health Organization today released new global data on Tuberculosis. The biggest takeaway: TB has now ranks along side AIDS as the leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. In 2014, TB killed 1.5 million people worldwide, disproportionately...

How to Solve Childhood TB (Video)

For World Tuberculosis Day today, the TB Alliance is shining the spotlight on a sometimes overlooked aspect of the global TB burden: pediatric TB. Worldwide, TB has been on a steady decline–deaths have dropped 45% based on 1990 levels,  meaning...

Does Don Draper Have Tuberculosis?

If you caught the latest episode of “Mad Men” on Sunday night, you saw a feverish Don coughing and spluttering around Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce before leaving the office early to take to bed.