Seven years ago back in 2008 Royal Dutch Shell PLC published two possible “scenarios” –their alternative extrapolations as to how the...

Amongst the many challenges involved in the diagnosis and treatment of TB is the issue of stigma attached to this disease. Stigma can be...

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...

An extremely important report has been published today. It talks of a possible 10 million deaths each year from drug-resistant diseases...

In 2012 the first ever national survey of prevalence of infectious TB was conducted in Nigeria... Nigeria’s the most populous country in...

“Recent Trends in MDR –TB: a new analysis”… This was how the Global Report entitled one of its sections. The summary that followed claims...

This part of our analysis of the 2014 Global TB Report relates to the tricky subject of rates of incidence, prevalence and notification....

You may have seen the Gates Foundation-funded Global Burdens of Disease report... There was some truly earth shaking stuff tucked away in...

The World Health Assembly has really embraced the word “ambitious” – using it as the fundamental adjective to describe its 2015-2035...

Article 1 of the WHO’s constitution states that that the objective given to it by its members includes the attainment by all peoples of...