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What the Fight Against TB Can Teach Us About COVID-19

As governments around the world struggle to contain spiraling infections and an ever-increasing death toll from COVID-19, it's worth using World TB Day to reflect on what lessons we can draw from the long and still unfinished fight against tuberculosis - the world's most deadly infectious disease that kills nearly 1.5 million per year, writes Peter Sands of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis.

Africa: What Fight Against Tuberculosis Can Teach Us About Fighting COVID-19

Thomson Reuters Foundation, 23 March 2020

As governments around the world struggle to contain spiraling infections and an ever-increasing death toll from COVID-19, it's worth reflecting on what lessons we can draw from the… Read more »

World Health Organisation

March 24 is World TB Day.

Africa: New WHO Recommendations to Prevent Tuberculosis Aim to Save Millions of Lives

WHO, 24 March 2020

New World Health Organization (WHO) guidance will help countries accelerate efforts to stop people with tuberculosis (TB) infection becoming sick with TB by giving them preventive… Read more »
Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe to Get New TB Drug

Aurum Institute, 24 March 2020

Today, the Aurum Institute and its partners, as part of the IMPAACT4TB project, announced that five high-burden TB countries will roll out a new, shorter drug regimen (known as… Read more »
Africa: How to Avoid a Second Tragedy for Those With Tuberculosis

MSF, 23 March 2020

As the world grapples with the coronavirus COVID-19 global pandemic, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned for vulnerable groups worldwide. People with… Read more »