Obama Administration Says 'No' To Global Health Fund For Developing Nations
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...
Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 05.17.2012
More people die from TB today than ever before -- 1.4 million people each year, according to the World Health Organization. Part of the reason is that TB is still diagnosed in most parts of the world using a method invented in the late 19th century.
Salmaan Keshavjee | Posted 05.24.2012
"How unromantic it is to die of tuberculosis in the twenty-first century?"
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 03.24.2012
In order to ensure that new tools are developed and today's treatments are provided, governments must prioritize tuberculosis as a public health priority and close the projected gaps in domestic and international funding.
David Greeley | Posted 05.24.2012
Our most daunting global health crisis is a pernicious, wasting disease that can be spread by a simple cough or sneeze and has been infecting humans since 4,000 B.C.
Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 03.31.2012
We know we can end AIDS. It was a pretty good year and an absolutely astounding decade.
Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 03.24.2012
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.
Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 01.08.2012
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.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.29.2011
Is Obama neglecting worldwide human rights issues, as critics charge?
Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 11.15.2011
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 horr...
Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011
On Thanksgiving four years ago I wound up quarantined in a hospital room the size of a walk-in-closet. The trouble started early on turkey day whe...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011
Sculptor Rafael Petrosyan left Armenia nearly four decades ago, but old customs die hard. He's had his morning shot of wine already when I catch up with him.
Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011
This article originally appeared in the September 17, 2010 edition of Kenya's National Star newspaper. Daniel Ng'etich and Patrick Kipng'etich Kirui ...
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011
Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether so...
Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1988, while Nelson Mandela was in prison, he contracted tuberculosis (TB). TB is common in prisons, with overcrowded cells and poor ventilation fac...
Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011
When last measured, HIV prevalence in Zambian prisons was a staggering 27 percent, almost double the rate in the general population.
Kari Stoever | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Posted 05.25.2011
Christiaan Van Vuuren has spent over 170 days in hospital quarantine with tuberculosis in Australia. In that time cooped up, he has managed to become ...
Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
The world will feel like a better place, and we'll feel less helpless, when the oil leak in the Gulf is finally plugged, but this evening reminded me that we face so many other problems where our efforts can help.
Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011
One-third of the world's population has been infected. In 2008, there were more than nine million new cases -- about three million more than two decades ago. Why isn't TB going away?
Joanne Carter | Posted 05.25.2011
While Senators Obama, Biden, and Clinton all voted for the Lantos-Hyde plan to ramp up the fight against TB, now, they have not prioritized investment commensurate with the scale of devastation of this disease.
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011
ATLANTA — An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before t...
AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011
LONDON — The World Health Organization says it doesn't have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tubercu...
Dr. Robin Wood | Posted 05.25.2011
It is in all of our interests to help stem an out-of-control TB epidemic -- from Washington to Cape Town -- and save the lives of children and adults.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2012