Kolleen Bouchane

The BBC reported this week on the ongoing investigation into the death of 15-year-old Alina Sarag, a teenager from Birmingham, UK. She died in January of tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by a bacterial infection that passes from person to person through the air. She was one of...

If we needed more evidence that the funding cuts at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria were going to be detrimental to people's lives, a new study published this week makes it clear: Providing funding to fight malaria makes malaria go away. Cutting funding for...

You can be forgiven if you're fatigued when it comes to commemorative days. There are so many worthwhile causes and campaigns that compete for media, funding and political and popular support that often these days come and go without a notice.

Too bad then, that we still desperately need...

Bill Gates released his third annual letter this week. The letter is part a Year In Review of the human challenges the Gates Foundation works to address -- global health, agriculture, and education -- and part treatise on Gates' views and priorities for the future. The...

When you're trying to break into the news cycle, the first rule of thumb is never to compete with someone who's bound to upstage you. So I was surprised that Bill Gates would choose the same night as the State of the Union to issue his annual public letter. It's...

Last night I had dinner with one of the smartest people I know. We talked about our work. She asked me, "What is tuberculosis actually?" I was stuck for a second about where to start. Because usually I start with the good news -- that TB (a contagious lung disease...

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.

There are millions of such stories. There are reams of data about how this has been allowed to happen. And...

This afternoon I hopped off the train from London in Lille, France. Lille is a small town full of beautiful architecture, art, theater and people who this afternoon responded to my heinous French language skills with kindness and grace.

As I wandered around Lille at dusk I thought about Louis...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu often speaks eloquently about what is possible.

Recently, he stuck to the facts.

In Tutu's op-ed in the Washington Post 'An end to AIDS is within our reach,' he called on the Obama Administration to demonstrate leadership to end AIDS by increasing

In one of the most memorable moments in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, Fantine gasps and begs with her last breath for the safety and protection of her young daughter Cosette. Fantine subsequently succumbs to consumption -- the disease now better known as tuberculosis (TB).

Many believe TB is...

It all starts with a cough. A woman covers her mouth and then shakes hands with a man next to her on a plane. He infects 10 others. Everyone gets horribly sick. They are given medicine but it has no effect. Three of them die.

No, this isn't a...

Sometimes you are in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. When things come together like they did Monday night the difference can literally mean millions of lives. That is, without exaggeration, how I felt as I listened to leaders of government, cultural icons, and others gathered at...