Last Tuesday was World TB Day and in order to improve our understandings of this complex disease, and to get a better picture of what’s being done to combat it, we attended three separate events which marked the day. All of them were intending to highlight the problems faced by those attempting to confront what is already a plague of drug-resistant disease. Two of them were in London - one of these a research conference at University College London [UCL] and the other a gathe