'Unchanged Melody (2)' ... further reflections on the 2015 Report
When it comes to measuring the progress of a disease three different methods of measurement are normally used: incidence, prevalence and...


Unchanged melody... (1)
Well the WHO’s Global Report has been out for over a week, and it turned out to contain pretty much the sort of numbers we were...
So whose Plan is it anyway?
The last twelve months has seen the emergence of a new ‘post-2015’ Global Strategy for TB – one that’s intended to be rolled out over the...
What Global Emergency exactly?
In a few days’ time the WHO will publish its annual Global Tuberculosis Report. You may find some reference made to it in the media. If...


The ‘Duke’ and the secondary stories behind this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine
Duke Ellington was once asked what his favourite type of music was. “There are only two types of music”, he replied, “either good music...
So what are the real costs of drugs today?
It’s unlikely you won’t have found yourself shocked these last few days by the story of the ex-hedge fund manager who bought the rights...


... but then we'd never heard of Chuuk ...
If you know anything about TB you’ll be well aware that good news in the field of MDR-TB is hard to find. In fact we’d never really heard...


Can an infectious disease that is only successfully treated in 48% of cases not be on the rise?
That’s exactly what the WHO has been proposing. And that 48% success rate only relates to the cases that are treated: according to the...


Common health for a Commonwealth?..
..or a collective tuberculosis emergency? When the political media of the English speaking world use the word “commonwealth” they most...
Sierra Leone - a country where tuberculosis rolls on as ebola disappears
The ebola outbreak in West Africa seems to have passed into the category of ‘old news’ – with its final total death toll now somewhere...