World TB Day March 24, 2026
Every year World TB Day falls on March 24 th . On this date 144 years ago the German immunologist Robert Koch first demonstrated the existence of the TB bacterium. At the same time he showed how to identify it in a TB patient with active disease – through so-called ‘sputum microscopy’. Sputum microscopy actually isn’t a very reliable or sensitive diagnostic because it requires a good dollop of hawked up sputum from the patient – and in many TB cases this is really difficult t
The 2025 Global Report is published - our analysis of some of its content
Each year we offer our analysis of the WHO’s Global TB report soon after it gets published. This year it’s appeared a little later than usual which already suggested to us that it might contain material that’s been more carefully reviewed than usual for the purposes of political expediencies, and after considering the Report’s contents we believe that this is probably the case. So, because some particular aspects of the Report are reported but are somewhat muted in the way th
“The machinery that we use to get TB treatment to people has just ground to a halt”
This is a quote from an interview with John Green, author of Everything is Tuberculosis. Green is a best-selling author who, in a...
TB vaccine research update - Part 2
In this second blog of a series on the progress in TB vaccine research, we going to take a walk through the forest of this research,...
“The world will not end the TB epidemic without new vaccines.” The TB Vaccine Pipeline Report, Part 1
So states the summary of New York’s Treatment Action Group’s recent analysis of the current pipeline of new TB vaccines. Written by Mike...
If ‘asymptomatic TB’ really 'substantively' provokes TB transmission...
In the last blogs we discussed some general content in the WHO’s most recent TB Report, and most particularly we identified one...
‘Asymptomatic TB’ in the latest Global TB Report – is it something needing really serious new attention, or is it just a red herring?
Tucked away (in full sight) within the most recent Global TB Report is a section on ‘asymptomatic TB’. Asymptomatic TB, as far as we are...
The 2024 Global TB Report – much the same story, but with one startling addition
The WHO’s annual TB Report was published earlier this month, but this year’s has had little fanfare and almost no media attention....
Happy ‘Duan Wu’ (Dragon Boat) day – time to scythe your mugwort!
It's time to sharpen your scythe and cut some mugwort because today is Duan Wu Jie or (more popularly globally today) the ‘Dragon Boat...
It’s World Moxa Day today!
Moxafrica is pleased to share some news on World Moxa Day. First of all, things are progressing with the project in Durban, South Africa,...
