“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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“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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World Immunization Week 2013 is an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated to raising public awareness of how immunization saves lives around the world. Every year, millions of children could be spared an unnecessary death from measles, pneumonia, diarrhea, polio, diphtheria, tetanus and other preventable diseases if we could simply get them the…
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Did you know that… Pneumonia kills more children under five worldwide than AIDS, malaria and measles combined? Pneumonia is an acute respiratory infection that affects the lungs. It can be caused by a virus, bacteria or fungi. The greatest concentration of children affected live in poverty-stricken, developing regions where access to interventions is a major barrier. Pneumonia is considered…
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