March 15
Africa: Africans Can Solve the Disease That Haunts Us - - Here's How
I was born in Brakpan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in eSwatini (known then as Swaziland). People in these two countries share one predominant fear: unemployment. Other… Read more »
October 13, 2023
Africa: Behind Each Climate Disaster Awaits a Tuberculosis Crisis
At the end of September, two weeks after the United Nations held a High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (TB), a torrential storm dropped 6" of rain on New York City. The intensity of… Read more »
July 26, 2023
Africa: TB Preventive Treatment - The Need for Choice
The progress made in HIV prevention is nothing short of a global success story. It is time that TB caught up to HIV. Medicine is simply too advanced for us to tolerate how one… Read more »
July 03, 2023
Africa: Tuberculosis - A Disease of the Poor That Needs Rich Funding
The United Nations General Assembly is convening a high-level meeting on Tuberculosis (TB) to get a political commitment for increased funding for programmes and research to end an… Read more »
May 08, 2023
Africa: Can a Pledge to End TB Stick This Time Around?
This week, the United Nations will host two days (May 8-9) of preliminary talks to plan a larger conference on tuberculosis (TB) in September. These preliminary talks will be held… Read more »
March 22, 2023
Africa: Why Gender Transformative Leadership Is Key to Ending TB - for Good
Despite being both curable and preventable, the TB pandemic is a global health crisis and a leading cause of death worldwide. COVID-19 brought into sharp focus how women bear the… Read more »
November 08, 2022
Africa: Progress On Tuberculosis Can Be Achieved in Africa
The news in many parts of the world is that tuberculosis (TB) is reclaiming the title of the world's most deadly infection, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to kill an… Read more »
September 15, 2022
Africa: Let's Fight for What Counts to End AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Next week, taking place alongside the UN General Assembly, President Biden hosts a financing summit in New York of such importance that it will determine if millions of people… Read more »
May 19, 2022
South Africa: As Covid Wanes, Tuberculosis Deaths Must Become Visible
It is time to treat the scourge of Tuberculosis scourge with the same urgency as we did the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »