The pandemic that just keeps on killing (and it’s not the coronavirus…)
Today (March 24th, 2022) marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he'd discovered the bacterium that causes TB. It was a...
Farewell, Dr Paul...
With great sadness we have just learnt of the death of Dr Paul Farmer yesterday in Rwanda. Dr Farmer (or ‘Dr Paul’ as he was much better...
Dorothy Nabuule - A sorrowful farewell
This has been an immensely difficult piece to write - which is why this sad announcement is now two months overdue. Several weeks ago in...
The WHO's new WHO Global Tuberculosis Report - what one disease has been doing to another...
On 14th October the WHO released its annual Global Tuberculosis Report. Its contents make for grim reading. We review its alarming...
'A Tale of Two Vaccines'
Exactly one hundred years ago the first (and so far only) TB vaccine (BCG) was first successfully used on an infant. Currently somewhere...
Keiko...
On May 21st 2021 we were devastated to hear from Mallorca of the death of Keiko Chaffee, a member of our Moxafrica team. Keiko died of...
Two clocks ticking down in the corners of an ancient plague
A recent report from the WHO released two days ago reckons that 1.4 million fewer people have accessed treatment for TB during 2020...
When is a pandemic NOT a pandemic?
Every March 24th is World TB Day but there’s a good chance it will get even less of a mention than ever in the media this year, and this...
We're really trying to make sense of TB in India
The WHO’s most recent Global TB Report reckons that probably over a quarter of the world’s annual new TB cases are occurring in India....
WHO TB Report 2020 – so much fresh cause for concern yet no real alarm call! Is anybody out there?
A week ago the WHO published its latest annual report on the global state of tuberculosis. This one reports on the year 2019 – in other...
