MDR TB

POLITICS
This Disease Can Still Get You Quarantined For Months -- And It's On The Rise
By Lauren Weber
On World Tuberculosis Day, four survivors reveal what it's like to have "airborne cancer."
POLITICS
He Looks At Tuberculosis Death Toll And Wonders Why You're Not Worried
By Lauren Weber
"Nobody is safe from it," says South Africa's health minister.
POLITICS
Obama Proposes Less Money To Fight World's Top Infectious Killer
By Lauren Weber
His budget comes two months after his lauded plan to attack tuberculosis.
POLITICS
Obama Emphasizes Malaria In State of the Union, But Not This Way Deadlier Disease
By Lauren Weber
He highlighted malaria and HIV/AIDS instead, the other two diseases the Global Fund was established to fight.
POLITICS
CDC Director Calls It 'Shameful' This Curable Disease Still Kills Millions
By Lauren Weber
The leading infectious killer in the world has been around for centuries. When will the world eliminate tuberculosis?
POLITICS
Only 3 Congressmen Showed For A Hearing On The No. 1 Infectious Killer In The World
By Lauren Weber
Over 1.5 million people now die from tuberculosis a year, pushing it past AIDS.
POLITICS
This Disease Could Kill 75 Million People By 2050
By Lauren Weber
The White House has a plan to combat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, but it may never get funded.
IMPACT
Lessons from Multidrug-Resistant TB on How Evidence can Catalyse Policy Change
By Dr. Ariel Pablos-Mendez , Contributor
Physician, scholar, diplomat and global health leader
We need to increase financial commitment by both the public and the private sectors and strengthen the provision of high-quality TB care by all providers to accelerate TB control today.
IMPACT
Davos: An Age-old Resort to Cure 'Bad Breath'
By Kari Stoever, Contributor
Global health and development expert; Vice President of Extern...
If the global leaders in Davos don't invest in innovative new tools like TB vaccines, a world without effective antibiotics may be what awaits us. I hope Bono's voice is rested.
IMPACT
Being A Tuberculosis Physician: Struggles, Challenges And Hopes
By Dr. Jayant Banavaliker, Contributor
Physician
Treatment for MDR-TB often takes two years - a challenge for any chest physician. The drugs have very toxic side effects
IMPACT
Here I Am: Voices From the Fight Against Tuberculosis
By Lucy Chesire, Contributor
Executive Director and Secretary to the Board, TB ACTION Group
While many will mark World TB Day this coming Sunday the 24th, it's not really a day for celebration. It's hard to celebrate something that still kills close to 1.5 million people each year in the 21st century despite the fact that everyone could have been treated or cured.
IMPACT
Here I Am: A Kenyan Story of Hope in the Face of Drug-resistant TB
By Lucy Chesire, Contributor
Executive Director and Secretary to the Board, TB ACTION Group
Edward is lucky to have been diagnosed in time; the most common methods for testing drug resistance can take between six and 16 weeks. Luck shouldn't have anything to do with it: Many patients lose their lives before it is even known that they have drug-resistant TB.
IMPACT
Here I Am: Leading the Fight Against Tuberculosis
By Lucy Chesire, Contributor
Executive Director and Secretary to the Board, TB ACTION Group
This week donors are meeting to discuss the Global Fund's progress in fighting the three killer diseases: AIDS, TB and malaria. Looking at the future, one thing is clear: we need sufficient funds and we need to spend them right.
IMPACT
'Virtually Untreatable Tuberculosis'
By Kolleen Bouchane, Contributor
Executive Coach & Founder, Pinwheel Strategies
An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published new data on Thursday showing that an epidemic of completely drug-resistant, airborne disease is creeping steadily toward us.
IMPACT
Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
By Kolleen Bouchane, Contributor
Executive Coach & Founder, Pinwheel Strategies
We need to get ahead of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This means detecting TB early, testing for drug resistance and providing appropriate treatment in both the public and private sectors.
IMPACT
Got Outrage? We Do, and We Are Ready to Share
By Kolleen Bouchane, Contributor
Executive Coach & Founder, Pinwheel Strategies
I feel outrage everyday. I think of the stories I know about those who have lived with and died from tuberculosis and I feel truly deeply irreparably angry.
THE WORLD POST
Vuvuzela: Going Viral to Save Lives
By Kari Stoever, Contributor
Global health and development expert; Vice President of Extern...
The vuvuzela is quickly becoming the world's first viral instrument. I recommend we make it the international instrument of solidarity to prevent deaths from HIV/AIDS and TB.
THE WORLD POST
Zambia's TB-ridden prisons
By Joe Amon, Contributor
Director of the health division, Human Rights Watch
It should not be necessary to invoke the spectre of drug-resistant TB for the government of Zambia to fulfil its obligations
THE WORLD POST
South Africa Battles Deadly New Tuberculosis
By GlobalPost.com, GlobalPost.com
The two health workers drove more than 100 kilometers across the district to inject eight patients. They injected an older