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A Chinese doctor examines an x-ray of a tuberculosis patient at the Beijing Tuberculosis Hospital on March 18, 1999.

A Fight Unfinished: The Legacy of Tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis patients, wearing masks to stop the spread of the disease, stand outside their ward at Chiulo Hospital.

Expediting Access to the Tuberculosis Vaccine

by Melinda F. Moree

Engaging countries where tuberculosis is abundant could aid research and development

A man is fanned by his wife in the post-operative ward at Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, after a lung operation for complications caused by tuberculosis, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Governance

Revolutionizing Tuberculosis Detection in Vietnam

by Victoria Lebrun, Mai Thu Hien, Robert Makombe

How Double X will harness technology and AI to transform tuberculosis screening in Vietnam and beyond

Naveed Ahmed, a doctor, gives medical assistance to Hameeda, who is suffering from malaria, at Sayed Abdullah Shah Institute of Medical Sciences in Sehwan, Pakistan, on September 29, 2022.
Governance

COVID-19 Fueled Record-Breaking Investments in Global Health

by Kevin O’Rourke, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

Examining opportunities and challenges related to development spending

A worker hoses down bright orange seats in the stands at Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Ahmedabad India, on February 17, 2021.
Governance

Why It's Hard to Understand How COVID-19 Affected Global Health System Performance

by Anna Gage, Annie Haakenstad

Universal health coverage examined through the lens of tuberculosis

A tuberculosis patient holds his medicines received from the government's tuberculosis center in Rawalpindi, Pakistan July 11, 2016. The pink pills are sealed in rows of green packaging with gold foil on the back that gives the name and dosage of the drug.
Poverty

Tackling Tuberculosis with Strategic Health Diplomacy

by Rachel Sadoff

Cutting drug prices for tuberculosis holds diplomatic, humanitarian, and economic promise

a young man wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and a blue surgical face mask, sits on a plastic chair outside a mobile TB testing clinic
Governance

Why the Global Fund Is Important to U.S. Foreign Policy

by Mark P. Lagon

The Global Fund is pivotal to tackling current pandemics and emerging threats

Cristian Molina, 26, takes his tuberculosis medication at his house in the shantytown of Lujan in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 26, 2019. Molina is prescribed to take 11 tablets per day, seven in the morning and four in the afternoon, which often give him a stomachache.
Poverty

The Fight Against Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

by Caroline Kantis

A photo series depicting people living with TB

Dr. Yogesh Jain examines a young boy who has sickle cell disease for pneumonia, located in a remote village clinic that does not have any x-ray facilities, in May 2017 at Jan Swasthya Sahyog community health program
Poverty

From Zero to 50,000: The Making of a Community Health Program in Rural India

An interview with pediatric oncologist and Jan Swasthya Sahyog community health program cofounder Dr. Yogesh Jain

Famous singer and social activist Bono attends a Senate Appropriations State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee hearing on foreign assistance in Washington D.C. on April 12, 2016. The photo shows Bono at a long table with several rows of chairs behind him. The chairs are filled with people who appear to be laughing. The REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
Governance

How to Tackle Global Problems in an Age of Populism

by Chris Collins, Mark P. Lagon

Appetites for investment do exist today to define achievable goals, apply effective tools, and solve global challenges

Demonstrators march through the streets of Cape Town to highlight the need for new strategies and medicines to curb the spread of tuberculosis on November 8, 2007. Picture shows a crowd of people wearing red shirts with a woman at center shouting into the camera
Governance

TB: The Challenge of Changing Drug Policies

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Complex lessons in governance seen in rollout of new tuberculosis drug bedaquiline in South Africa, Belarus and Vietnam