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The 75th Birthday of the World Health Organisation – and World Health Day 2023 ('Health for All')

On April 7th, 1948, the World Health Organisation was officially formed as a specialist agency of the recently formed United Nations....

World TB Day 2023 – getting back ‘on track’

The optimistic theme of this year’s World TB Day is ‘YES - WE CAN END TB!’ and of course we could do (although realistically it will take...

AMR Awareness Week (Day 7): how can we as individuals help reduce the risks to ourselves?

Well, welcome to the last day of WAAW week, taking note as before of a particular part of the official blurb, this time that “World...

AMR Awareness Week (Day 6): MDR-TB, the existing anomolous AMR pandemic

The emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) represents one of the most daunting...

AMR Awareness Week (Day 5): the lack of new antibiotics, and the dubious role of Big Pharma

Once again, we begin by quoting a section of the official blurb for AMR Awareness Week: “World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is a...

AMR Awareness Week (Day 4): "One Health Stakeholders’ Best Practices" – what's that all about?

The WHO state that World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is intended to encourage (amogst other things “best practices among … One...

AMR Awareness Week November 18-26 (Part 3): how can we as individuals help reduce the risks?

Amongst other things, the WHO proposes that “World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is intended to encourage “best practices among the...

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week November 18-26 (Day 2): the nature of the threat of AMR

So how big a problem is antimicrobial resistance? AMR is unquestionably a growing problem and indeed was endorsed as such by the WHO at...

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) November 18-26 (Part 1)

Today is the first day of ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’ and we will be publishing a series of blogs during the week, intending to...

Another year, another WHO Global TB Report - and it’s really not looking good…

Three days ago we downloaded the new WHO Annual Global Report on TB and started workjing through it. It was a pretty horrible experience....

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If ‘asymptomatic TB’ really 'substantively' provokes TB transmission...

‘Asymptomatic TB’ in the latest Global TB Report – is it something needing really serious new attention, or is it just a red herring?

The 2024 Global TB Report – much the same story, but with one startling addition

Happy ‘Duan Wu’ (Dragon Boat) day – time to scythe your mugwort!

It’s World Moxa Day today!

“You get a big company to take [a new TB vaccine} forward?... BULLSHIT…”

Today is World Lung Day

'Our own Donald'

This is what a Political Declaration on TB should look like...

Happy World Moxa Day! – with a neurological explanation for why St36 is so effective with moxa