Infectious Diseases

On March 19th, 2019 the first operating room for surgical management of Tuberculosis was inaugurated at Hipolito Unanue Hospital (Lima, Peru).

How Surgery Could Help End Tuberculosis

Indian TB patient Sonu Verma, 25, poses with his chest x-ray in Sonipat, March 3, 2016. Image: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty

A Roadmap for Ending the Moral Catastrophe of TB

A woman's left foot is checked for mycetoma by DNDi staff in Sudan; her right leg was infected with mycetoma and had to be amputated. Image by Neil Brandvold/DNDi

Fighting off the Flesh Eater: Controlling Mycetoma in Sub-Saharan Africa

Principal investigator Steve Lindsay (left), Medical Detection Dogs CEO Claire Guest and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Professor James Logan share a moment with the remarkable sniffers. (Image: Durham University/Medical Detection Dogs/LSHTM)

Malaria Dogs

Outside the UN General Assembly Hall where the High-level meeting on tuberculosis was held on September 26, 2018 .

High-level Hopes to End TB

John, 3, who suffers from multi-drug-resistant tubeculosis (MDR-TB), is held by his mother Elizabeth, also an MDR-TB case, after she gave him his medication at an MSF-run clinic in Nairobi.

A New Wrinkle in TB’s Drug Resistance

A worker with the PHE-Ethiopia Consortium, right, shares information with a schoolteacher in the rural Bale-Eco region.

The Spread of Quality Information in the Era of ‘Fake News’

Airplane in Sunset

Before You Leave for Overseas, Do These 5 Things

A nurse working with the WHO shows a bottle containing Ebola vaccine in Mbandaka, May 21, 2018.

Ebola in DRC: The Next Few Weeks Are Critical

Clade X: A Mock, Yet Entirely Plausible, Pandemic

The Global Fund’s Peter Sands speaking at a #WHA71 side event in Geneva on May 22, 2018.

The Local Path to Global Health Security

A health worker at Bikoro Hospital, DRC readies to confront Ebola. (Image: ©UNICEF/UN0209049/Naftalin)

DRC’s Ebola Outbreak Not An International Emergency—Yet, Says WHO