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His achievements as a philanthropist are not widely known today because he did not create a grantmaking foundation that outlasted him.
New research found 574 people were diagnosed with TB only after death, exposing delays in recognising a preventable and treatable disease.
A mix of domestic revenue generation, efficiency gains and strategic partnerships is essential to sustain and expand HIV programmes despite declining external aid.
Through technological innovation and the development of new tuberculosis vaccines, ASEAN countries play a vital role in combating TB at both regional and global levels.
The Harmattan is linked to a range of conditions that affect the skin and mucous membranes of humans and animals.
Scholars are working to piece together information about Indigenous children who attended a residential school in Brantford and Inuit patients taken to a sanatorium in Hamilton, Ontario.
Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’
England is at risk of losing its ‘low TB incidence’ status.
Reports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates, but the Kansas outbreak shows that the ancient disease is very much a modern-day scourge.
Scientific discoveries are necessary to eliminate epidemic diseases. But addressing socioeconomic factors is just as essential in the fight against diseases such as syphilis, AIDS and TB.
USAID has a decades-long history of fighting smallpox, polio, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV.
Lawrence convinced himself that the periodic haemorrhages he suffered were associated with his bronchial tubes rather than his lungs.
The World Health Organization’s latest global report on tuberculosis has good and bad news for African countries.
The only vaccination against TB is more than 100 years old. Gene-editing has made it more effective.
Two out of five cases of TB remain undiagnosed. A test using a skin patch could help change that.
Seven African countries have managed to reduce TB deaths by a third.
People have been battling tuberculosis for thousands of years, and drug-resistant strains are on the rise. Analyzing large datasets with AI can help humanity gain a crucial edge over the disease.
Antimicrobial resistance is an epidemic that kills close to 5 million people annually. The solutions are complex and must take into account the needs of the poor.
In 2021 10.6 million people developed TB and 1.6 million died from the disease. Now, for the first time in 100 years, there are promising signs of a vaccine breakthrough.
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Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
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Assistant Professor, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
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Head of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand
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Deputy Director of the Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Reader in Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; and Honorary Research Associate at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and, University of Liverpool
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Faculty Member, Africa Health Research Institute; Associate professor, UCL
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Health
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Extraordinary Senior Lecture in the Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University
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Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town
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Professor; Director Sydney ID, University of Sydney
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Faculty Member, Africa Health Research Institute; Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, UCL
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Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of the Western Cape
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, SARChI Research Chair in Mycobactomics, Stellenbosch University
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Head of the Division of Pulmonology, University of Cape Town