..or a collective tuberculosis emergency? When the political media of the English speaking world use the word “commonwealth” they most often refer to the “Commonwealth of Nations” – a hodge-podge of countries which are largely left-over from the de-colonisation of the British Empire but which have since become a force of advocacy for human rights, for gender equality, for the welfare of smaller countries and for a fairer deal for the poor. First referred to as the “British Co

The ebola outbreak in West Africa seems to have passed into the category of ‘old news’ – with its final total death toll now somewhere around 11,000 (we say this hopefully because some isolated cases are still occurring). We’ve already discussed the striking contrasts between the casualties of ebola and TB on posts on our Facebook page (including that 11,000 is an average deathtoll from TB every week), but we feel compelled to develop this discourse in a different direction h