World TB Day (minus 3) - It's time to take childhood TB seriously!
In three days time it's another World TB Day, and the Stop TB Partnership has (as usual) developed a punchy strapline for the day. This year it is: "World TB Day 2019: ‘It’s time to…" Basically we’re each being invited to complete this sentence as we see fit and then put it out there.. So we’ve thought long and hard about we can best end this sentence. Our first and simplest suggestion? It's just – It’s time to end TB! That’s certainly a great idea by anyone's standards. Or m
International Women's Day (+1) - and kicking ass
Yesterday was International Women’s Day (and what’s more, World TB Day is now less than a fortnight away). Given the significance of yesterday, we feel it important to recognise that we have some extraordinary women in our little team not just here in Europe but also providing vital support in Japan as well. Thank you! What’s more, over the past decade we’ve had the rare privilege of meeting and working with some truly extraordinary women in Uganda and South Africa – women wh
Do we choose not to hear the suffering?
This blog is written in honour of the unheard. It was Arundhati Roy who observed that there is actually no such thing as the voiceless (apart from elective, acquired or congenital mutes) – instead she says that there are only ‘the preferably unheard’'. Of course, we can easily reply to her that we do hear story after story of human calamity or catastrophe in our media, and this is true - but it’s also true that these stories come to us through a mysterious filter system, mean
