Tag: TB

The Battle Against TB & HIV

April 2, 2014

“We are all here because of our commitment to fighting AIDS. But we cannot win the battle against AIDS if we do not also fight TB. TB is too often a death sentence for people with AIDS.” -Nelson Mandela, 15 July 2004, XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok   In 1988 Nelson Mandela, received a tuberculosis (TB)…
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Double Trouble: TB & HIV

March 29, 2014

“We needed to develop “delivery platforms” to treat tuberculosis and address the poverty that both puts people at risk for the disease and prevents them from being cured of it. With this airborne disease, good delivery systems prevent transmission–and that’s what public health is supposed to be all about.”   -Paul Farmer   This year’s international…
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Tuberculosis: The Not So Ancient Disease

March 26, 2014

“If the importance of a disease for mankind is measured by the number of fatalities it causes, then tuberculosis must be considered much more important than those most feared infectious diseases, plague, cholera and the like. One in seven of all human beings dies from tuberculosis.” –Robert Koch, 1882   Consumption, the white plague, the…
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