This Global Health Atlas enables you to explore such social and economic indicators as life expectancy, wealth, and education. Compare the indicators with the distribution of the world's deadliest ...

Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day on 24 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that cuts in global funding are significantly curtailing efforts to fight the disease. While not directly ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a disease which is both ... This will promote streamlined development and the eventual global distribution of a novel vaccine. Although a new, improved vaccination strategy ...

Despite these challenges, global efforts to prevent, treat and test for tuberculosis in regions with high rates of infection have helped to save nearly 80 million lives over the past 20 years.

The Global Tuberculosis Program began in 2011 with the recruitment of world-renowned pediatric TB expert Dr. Anna Mandalakas to Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, ...