

the 17th November..
The day before yesterday (17th November) was exactly 10 years since the idea behind Moxafrica first materialised so it was an important...


So what are we waiting for?
Yesterday we heard on the news that levels of carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere were the highest they’ve been for 800,000 years...


Today is “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”
It’s currently reckoned that we share our precious world with around 370 million human beings who are ethnologically designated as being...
“We have to start winning wars again!” (Donald Trump, March 1st 2017)
Right now this rather grotesque hankering towards winning wars seems to add up to hiking U.S. military spending (probably safest not to...
he Indian Factor (part 2) and prevalence surveys...
We think that we’ve already made the point in these blogs that moving the goal posts (or indeed not moving them depending on how the...


A new director general of the World Health Organisation
We quote here in full the Stop TB Partnership Announcement - 24 May 2017: Stop TB Partnership congratulates Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...
The Indian Factor (Part 1) or “a plea to the World Health Assembly and to the new Director General o
We’re now 24 years into a Global Emergency (one which the WHO originally proclaimed in 1993) and it's clear that it’s feared that the...


World TB Day 2017 (3) - lighting up the world in red ('dream, mirage or nemesis' and the 
As usual, March 24th was World TB Day and this year the Stop TB Partnership literally wanted to see the world ‘lit up’ for TB – meaning...


World TB Day 2017 (2): Something very serious doesn't add up in the numbers...
As a tiny stakeholder in the battle against tuberculosis we’ve been monitoring the pandemic through the lens of the annual WHO Global TB...


World TB Day 2017 (1) -
In 1917, exactly one hundred years ago, a London-based physician called out his native country on tuberculosis[1]: “As long as apathy,...