TB is the deadliest infectious diseases globally, with 10.8 million new cases and 1.25 million deaths in 2023. Effective screening for TB is an important intervention to quickly detect the disease ...

Speaking at the first day of the World Health Summit (WHS) Regional Meeting during the panel discussion Asia Region TB Vaccine R&D Financing, Dr. Swaminathan emphasised that an effective TB ...

Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.

March 24, 2025, was set aside by the World Health Organisation as World Tuberculosis Day to commemorate the day in 1882 when one of the true giants of early medicine, Dr Robert Koch, announced his ...

TB Alliance's third licensed manufacturer makes pretomanid available through the Global Drug Facility, further improving affordability and access TB Alliance applauds a new milestone in the fight ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, Johns Hopkins ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease that spreads through the air and affects millions worldwide but the good news is that TB is preventable with the right precautions. Understand how ...

The subject of Aldridge’s research is the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. In 2023, TB made 10.8 million people sick and killed around 1.25 million people.

What motivated you to write it? About 1.25 million people died from TB in 2023. It’s overwhelming, and we don’t know how to process these kinds of numbers. I wanted to write about one person ...