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World Tuberculosis Day 2020: COVID-19 and TB require global solidarity

Posted on 23 March 2020 (25 May 2023) by jeremy

TB is the world’s leading infectious disease killer with nearly 10 million people affected and 1.5 million deaths in 2018

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World Tuberculosis Day 2020: Tackling TB in Sudan and South Sudan

Posted on 23 March 2020 (2 May 2023) by jeremy

If left untreated, TB severely weakens people and can be fatal. TB is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide.

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Tuberculosis: MSF protests price of lifesaving drug as J&J release earnings

Posted on 23 January 2020 (2 May 2023) by jeremy

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York today, demanding the pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) make the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline available for all people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) for no more than a dollar a day. The price of this crucial drug […]